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But I have to admit that it _did_ make me go to my fridge and get some carrots.
Clever idea. I subscribe to the wacky theory that kids prefer junk food to vegetables because it tastes better rather than because they've been brainwashed by evil advertisers, but either way this will provide useful data.
While I agree with you, I notice that I eat disproportionately few carrots than their taste would suggest (they are pretty delicious), and it's mostly because of the inconvenience of cleaning them and their relative unavailability. If I had a vending machine with carrots, I'd definitely choose them over the other snacks most of the time.
Interesting idea, although I think the slogan (Eat 'Em Like Junk Food) might be so corn that it turns kids off of the product. If you want to reach kids you have to speak their language and whens the last time you heard a 12y.o. say anything like that?
If carrots actually tasted like they were supposed to, sweet and carroty, it wouldn't be so hard to get kids to eat them. Especially baby carrots, which are the junk of the carrot world, do not taste good.
Why do baby carrots taste different from regular carrots? I thought they were regular carrots, just pre-peeled/cut.
Also peeling them causes them to deteriorate somewhat.
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Is it really that inconvenient to clean a carrot? Just peel it and eat it. I can peel a carrot quicker than most people can even decide what to have at a vending machine.
You don't need to peel carrots, really. They are nice to eat just like they are!
If carrots actually tasted like they were supposed to, sweet and carroty, it wouldn't be so hard to get kids to eat them. Especially baby carrots, which are the junk of the carrot world, do not taste good.
I speculate that the varieties are different too. A carrot grown for a supermarket has to have properties that its home-grown cousin needn't, for instance a uniform size and shape to facilitate packaging, and not shrivelling after a week in storage. These probably win over taste when it comes to selecting the variety.
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Why do baby carrots taste different from regular carrots? I thought they were regular carrots, just pre-peeled/cut.
Because they use the lowest quality carrots to make them (since they are usually sold cheaply), and because by cutting and peeling they can hide defects. Also peeling them causes them to deteriorate somewhat.
Clever idea. I subscribe to the wacky theory that kids prefer junk food to vegetables because it tastes better rather than because they've been brainwashed by evil advertisers, but either way this will provide useful data.
I'm reminded of the studies in which people perceive that wine poured from an expensive bottle tastes better than wine poured from a cheap bottle - even though they're the same wine. Tasters actually processed the two wines in different parts of their brains.