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Baby carrots are carved from ugly full-size carrots

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Snack-sized vegetables are a total marketing fabrication. Baby carrots do not grow like tiny perfect cylinders; they are aggressively whittled down from massive, ugly, misshapen adult carrots that supermarkets outright refuse to sell.

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Baby carrots are carved from ugly full-size carrots
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