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How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
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#22Missed the best reason carrots are like junk food: they're sweet.
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#23My wife won't eat carrots because they make her allergic (cooked ones are fine)... she only gets these reactions since moving here to the US from France. Since this is a duopoly from the same region (Central CA), perhaps the dropoff in the past few years is due to the carrot quality?
Out of curiosity: I have a friend who had the same allergy... she switched to purely organic carrots and it went away. Does it work the same way with your wife?
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4g of sugar out of a 85g serving is not 57%. Where did you get those numbers?
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Carrots don't cause the same insulin spike that candy bars do. Refined and processed sugars hit your bloodstream much more quickly than unprocessed foods.
Carrots also don't taste as good as a chocolate bar, so it would still be an epic sacrifice.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but on the page you linked, it says that a 15g serving of baby carrots (raw) contains 1g of sugars (and 1g of carbohydrates in total.)
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#27I see 'extreme' commercials for baby carrots all the time on local television. They can put all the marketing they want behind baby carrots, there is still one big problem: raw carrots taste like shit. I'd honestly rather go hungry than eat raw carrots, and no amount of cool marketing is going to change that.
I've always loved the taste of raw carrots, although honestly "baby carrots" tend to be some of the most bland and tasteless of carrots. :-(
You realize baby carrots are cut from the regular carrots?
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You are off by a factor of ten. 5.7% sugar. More accurately 4.7%.