We’ll cut straight to the chase here folks, there is no such thing as a baby carrot. What? Yes, listen. Baby carrots are merely crafted from larger regular carrots. The Huffington Post explains: “Baby carrots were originally one farmer’s ploy to sell more carrots. The late Mike Yurosek, a California carrot farmer, invented baby carrots in 1986 because most full-grown carrots were too ugly to sell.” In order to salvage the ugly ones and give them a fighting chance, Yurosek threw a few batches into an industrial green bean cutter that sliced them into uniform 2-inch pieces. They were an instant hit. After some extensive research, we have validated the claims and can confirm that baby carrots are not an actual thing. The Washington Post confirms that there are smaller carrots that can grow naturally but the baby carrots that we know and love are manufactured. "There are so many people who honestly believe there are baby carrot farmers out there who grow these baby carrots that pop out of the ground and are perfectly convenient and smooth," said David Just, a professor of behavioral economics at Cornell. "The majority of consumers have no clue what they’re eating or how it’s produced," he said.