Did you know.........There is a difference between carrots sold with their green leaves and carrots already cut and sold in bags.
Fresh carrots that still have their feathery green leaves are typically no older than 3 weeks. They tend to be less sweet and have a deeper carrot flavor.
Bagged carrots can sit in storage for up to six months before they even reach the supermarket. Also bagged carrots have a sweeter taste that is more one dimensional as oppose to their fresher counterpart. The increase in sweetness is due to the fact that when roots vegetables sit in refrigeration it encourages the conversion of starch to glucose, which means greater sweetness.
----So if you are cooking with carrots your best bet would be to buy the fresher, leafy ones in order to get some good carrot flavor in your food.---- :)
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