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I absolutely love baby carrots. When I feel like having a snack in the afternoon or after dinner, it's much better to eat a bowl of baby carrots than to eat potato chips or similar junk food.

They keep for a long time in the fridge, and I can eat them straight out of the bag without any prep work.

I usually get 4 2-pound bags whenever I'm at Costco.

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Baby 'Cut' carrots or the ones picked very young?

Baby cut, which is all the article talks about

why are they preferred over the big bag of "normal" carrots at costco?

Because I can eat them straight out of the bag without any need to rinse, peel, or cut them. They are ready to eat, in perfectly sized bites.

As the article points out, at least on the inventor's farm 70% of carrots come out too deformed or misshapen to sell that way, so before this guy came along they were tossed. So these days the "abnormal" (but perfectly fine) carrots are cut into small pieces and sold as "baby carrots".

It wasn't clear to me from the article whether that is still the case, or whether it has now transformed into a segment based on straight carrots. Would be interesting to know how the volume of discarded carrots has developed over the years.

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