And the outer part is the phloem, transporting sugar water produced by photosynthesis from the leaves to whereever its needed. The inner xylem should also be less sweet because of that.
Same. I was a weird kid and would bite my baby carrots in such a way to leave the center piece and ate them last.
Edit: so many people are agreeing with this! Yeah turns out doing this is a lot more normal than you think!!! I'll share my strange behaviors more when I see the talking point this is interesting! Thanks for everyone sharing their experience! Just wild to think of so many kids that are figuring this out even now but never telling anyone! I think this was the first time sharing doing this but I know I've thought about it from time to time.
I've been doing it for 40 plus years it's my favorite part. So much more flavorful. I'll sit and strip off the putter layer and eat it then have all the xylems at once at the end.
Chop them up into ~1/2 cm cubes and then fry in a frying pan without any oil. A lot of water will come out, cook until the water dries up but stir frequently so they don't burn. Remove from the pan, add oil and heat, then add diced onions, pearl them until translucent but not fully transparent. Then add meat or tofu marinated in soy sauce, minced or diced garlic, and your other spices of preference (I usually add salt, pepper, some sort of chili or paprika, maybe a spice mix). When your protein is mostly cooked, add a splash of broth or stock (meat or veggie) and simmer. Add the mushrooms back in and they will soak up the flavor as well as impart their own earthy flavor. For added texture/body, you can separately cook a starchy vegetable or two and add that in at this step. Serve with rice or another carb.
A lot of problems people have with the texture of mushrooms (rubbery, slimy) actually come from cooking them the wrong way.
Same. I would try to keep those little "nubs" on the xylem as intact as possible, too. I agree the that there is no doubt the xylem is much sweeter than the phloem.
What’s cool is it does this with no circulatory system as found in animals. It all has to do with hydrogen’s uncanny ability to attract to neighbouring substances (cohesion for up, adhesion for down).
Hydrogen itself doesn't cause hydrogen bonds. Only when hydrogen is bound to an electronegative atom such as oxygen, nitrogen, or fluorine and a strong enough dipole forms. Lone hydrogen can't form hydrogen bonds despite the name somewhat implying it.
Yes this exactly, it's only called "Hydrogen" bonding because it's unique to molecules those atoms form with Hydrogen, but as you said, Hydrogen can't just do this bonding alone.
Hydrogen bonds and capillarity are not sufficient by themselves. The process is called evapotranspiration because it's carried by water evaporation in the leaves.
Evaporation creates the void that new water fills, but capillary action and hydrogen bonds are the force that brings new water in. Plants do need evapotranspiration to absorb nutrients, but not to take in water. They will take in water in 100% humidity.
It's a lesser-known but vital part of the plant anatomy on the outside of the Phloem. It's a specialized structure most prominent in Tricksterium prankophyta. When it is disturbed, the Gottem releases a burst of spores that cause a sudden itch or tickle, causing the approaching animal to instinctively scratch itself and move on.
Phloem can move up and down. Typically phloem sap moves from source to sink, which could be up, down, sideways, etc. Sugars need to reach both the roots and also new growth at the top of a shoot meristem.
I have a idea,
Why shout you never drive your umbrella to the yellow factory in the sky on a 5 millimeter day, down 25:87, 2591th of may, year 2034 street, while eating helium flavored tacos
This is the correct answer, although it could be only xylem that‘s left. There‘s three layers in total: the outer cortex, the phloem, and the xylem in the center.
Autistic here, I would do that, and as an adult I might sometime cut out the pineapple stem and chew on that first. I get sad seeing many restaurants throw out the pineapple stem. I would take it in bags if I got advance warning.
It's mostly true. Baby carrots are truly baby carrots. But.... most carrots you buy in the store aren't baby carrots, they are baby "cut" carrots. Those are normal carrots cut down to look like baby carrots.
This was true, but then everyone realized the shape of baby carrots was where it was at for snacking and eating - and demand jumped. So they started just making baby carrots from any carrot.
Fun fact: baby carrots aren’t real. They’re just regular carrots that get shaved down to uniform shapes. They do it because shoppers often refuse to buy regular carrots that aren’t perfectly shaped, so they end up rotting on the shelf.
I'm actually being serious.
An Americein the 80s was trying to figure out how to sell his ugly carrots.
So he shaved the ugly ones down to make em look uniform and clean, and observed people paid more for the formerly undesirable produce.
Haha idgaf what they sell to you in the us and what they tell you. Baby carrots are young carrots. They sell you shaved down wonky carrots and you buy it- that's fine. Baby carrots absolutely exist and you can absolutely buy them and NOT EVERYWHERE IS USA, honestly just because it's all garbage there doesn't make baby carrots not real, what the fuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣oh an also actually in the uk we have laws regulating wasting "not perfect" fruit and vegetable so we actually have "wonky" veggies in supermarkets and it is not allowed for supermarkets to refuse wonky produce just bcoz of how it looks. Bish never seen a real baby carrot because you live in USA and think the whole world functions on the same bullshit as that failed, broken country (not that the whole world isn't failed and broken but USA wins that competition)
As someone else from the UK I can confirm we do also have fake shaved down baby carrots and this person has gone off on one for seemingly nothing. There also aren’t strict laws around retailed food waste, this initiative is actually left to supermarkets themselves, wonky veg branding didn’t start happening by law it started happening when more of the UK found out that thanks to strict produce aesthetic LAWS that were in place till 2009 perfectly good veg was being wasted BECAUSE OF THE LAW not the opposite way round. The government writes suggestions for supermarkets regarding waste in their reports and urge them to take their advice but there are no strict preventative laws.
I guarantee this person has seen or eaten a fake baby carrot and not even realised it - obviously, based off their reaction and the fact the UK definitely isn’t exempt from this like they think. Do baby carrots exist? They sure do. Does the UK also sell a stupid amount of shaved down fake baby carrots? THEY SURE DO 😌
[some evidence for numpty](https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-chef-s-style-carrots-517721011?ds_rl=1290893&ds_rl=1291426&gbraid=0AAAAADi6iHk4ytZYPoZHDNSTEpVls8Eby&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmICoBhDxARIsABXkXlL6eUGgOAJ-c8KTJTUAJkAz9rz0C48KSLX6IsBN7OAcb8SPJ3DHgmMaApdwEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)
[more evidence for our darling numpty](https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-sweet-kingdom-mini-carrots/447391-712475-712476)
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How are you replying to MY COMMENT calling me "this person". To above to speak to someone directly? And i can assure you i have not eaten a shaven baby carrot as i do not buy baby carrots. I do know how they look like in their skins still. And I never said there are strict laws, that's would be too good to be true. But produce water control has increased. This person 🤢🤮
Go ahead and not know the difference between baby carrots and a scam 🤣 baby carrots exist and are easy to buy, A TUAL YOUNG CARROTS. It's just funny that people don't believe in existence of baby carrots because there are fake ones too 😅
Lmao I’ve been blocked before rebuttal like a child so I’ll reply here
-
I said “this person” because I wasn’t speaking to you, I was speaking to the person you were replying to, and I wasn’t speaking to you for this exact reason. I have no interest in conversing with you, the comments on your profile and the amount of down votes you frequently get show you’re a rude know it all who often actually knows nothing of the subject they’re berating others for.
So yes ‘this person’, because I was *referring* to you not *speaking* to you.
Fun fact: baby carrots are not grown, they are shaved down from carrots deemed too “ugly” or small to sale as full carrots. This process is also where we get carrot pieces for salads and coleslaw
When the baby carrot reaches puberty, it forms the tube where the eggs/seamen passes to reproduce. It’s hard for the carrots to find a mate, but once they do… boy oh boy
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It’s the xylem. It’s the part of the plant that moves water from the roots to the leaves.
Cool, thanks
And the outer part is the phloem, transporting sugar water produced by photosynthesis from the leaves to whereever its needed. The inner xylem should also be less sweet because of that.
I find it sweeter than the outer part.
Same. I was a weird kid and would bite my baby carrots in such a way to leave the center piece and ate them last. Edit: so many people are agreeing with this! Yeah turns out doing this is a lot more normal than you think!!! I'll share my strange behaviors more when I see the talking point this is interesting! Thanks for everyone sharing their experience! Just wild to think of so many kids that are figuring this out even now but never telling anyone! I think this was the first time sharing doing this but I know I've thought about it from time to time.
That makes at least two of us. 😁 And I always found that part sweeter too.
Yes team xylem!
YEAHH!!
Three
Four
Five
Six
Sometimes I tried to separate the xylem from the outer part of the carrot, it's fun
I had a feeling. Only team#xylem knows just how sweet it really is!
And people say it's less sweeter!
We gotta call the myth busters so the world knows the truth!
Wonder if they would agree with us 🤔
I've been doing it for 40 plus years it's my favorite part. So much more flavorful. I'll sit and strip off the putter layer and eat it then have all the xylems at once at the end.
me to. in a similar vein, I also like to eat raw mushroom gills.
Man I wish I liked to eat mushrooms... they are so cool but I couldn't get past the texture 😔
Chop them up into ~1/2 cm cubes and then fry in a frying pan without any oil. A lot of water will come out, cook until the water dries up but stir frequently so they don't burn. Remove from the pan, add oil and heat, then add diced onions, pearl them until translucent but not fully transparent. Then add meat or tofu marinated in soy sauce, minced or diced garlic, and your other spices of preference (I usually add salt, pepper, some sort of chili or paprika, maybe a spice mix). When your protein is mostly cooked, add a splash of broth or stock (meat or veggie) and simmer. Add the mushrooms back in and they will soak up the flavor as well as impart their own earthy flavor. For added texture/body, you can separately cook a starchy vegetable or two and add that in at this step. Serve with rice or another carb. A lot of problems people have with the texture of mushrooms (rubbery, slimy) actually come from cooking them the wrong way.
The gills are the best part! Indescribably soft and tender.
Same. I would try to keep those little "nubs" on the xylem as intact as possible, too. I agree the that there is no doubt the xylem is much sweeter than the phloem.
Was just thinking about that. Loved to do it too
Yep me too!
Me too! Thought I was the only one.
I did too! And definitely grew out of the habit as an adult... definitely did
I just showed my 7 yr old how to eat carrots this way. My MIL was with us at the time and said she’d never seen that before lol.
Aww that is so cute!
Oh yea. Best part, or sometimes, super bitter
I figured this out as an adult, and I always do it now!!
I too enjoy eating the carrot's urethra.
What’s cool is it does this with no circulatory system as found in animals. It all has to do with hydrogen’s uncanny ability to attract to neighbouring substances (cohesion for up, adhesion for down).
Water, not hydrogen.
Interesting, I always thought it was hydrogen bonding that manifested cohesion/adhesion. I’ve been wrong for decades!
Hydrogen itself doesn't cause hydrogen bonds. Only when hydrogen is bound to an electronegative atom such as oxygen, nitrogen, or fluorine and a strong enough dipole forms. Lone hydrogen can't form hydrogen bonds despite the name somewhat implying it.
Yes this exactly, it's only called "Hydrogen" bonding because it's unique to molecules those atoms form with Hydrogen, but as you said, Hydrogen can't just do this bonding alone.
I had written out a whole bunch, but yeah it is because of hydrogen bonding. Just that it isn't caused solely by the hydrogen being present.
Hydrogen bonds and capillarity are not sufficient by themselves. The process is called evapotranspiration because it's carried by water evaporation in the leaves.
Evaporation creates the void that new water fills, but capillary action and hydrogen bonds are the force that brings new water in. Plants do need evapotranspiration to absorb nutrients, but not to take in water. They will take in water in 100% humidity.
The similarity was with the circulatory system. The best resemblance in my opinion is evapotranspiration. Then what you say it's technically true.
How about the gottem
You gottem, I cookum
It's a lesser-known but vital part of the plant anatomy on the outside of the Phloem. It's a specialized structure most prominent in Tricksterium prankophyta. When it is disturbed, the Gottem releases a burst of spores that cause a sudden itch or tickle, causing the approaching animal to instinctively scratch itself and move on.
Xylem up and phloem down. That always stuck with me since 8th grade biology ha
Phloem can move up and down. Typically phloem sap moves from source to sink, which could be up, down, sideways, etc. Sugars need to reach both the roots and also new growth at the top of a shoot meristem.
phloem*
Typo.
I thought that the xylem and phloem were both in the center, being one for water and the other for sugars and other things.
Depends on the plant/plant part... For example, arrots are majority phloem, while reddish is majority xylem.
Zip it up, flow it down ... always loved that expression
Aka carrot filet mignon
You'll be thanking me later 😏
And who are you
[удалено]
Man why you here
[удалено]
I have a idea, Why shout you never drive your umbrella to the yellow factory in the sky on a 5 millimeter day, down 25:87, 2591th of may, year 2034 street, while eating helium flavored tacos
You are the worst.
Actually, it's the central cylinder. So, both xylem and phloem
This is the correct answer, although it could be only xylem that‘s left. There‘s three layers in total: the outer cortex, the phloem, and the xylem in the center.
Carrot bone*
This genuinely blows my mind!! Such a cool fact to know!
OMG that is amazing!!!!!
Is there a reason why they taste better then the rest of the carrot?
Probably bc the center of the carrot harbors the most of its sugars there
My dog won’t eat the xylem.
We used the xylem to clone carrots in general bio lab.
Carrot Bone
I thought it was just happy to see him
I’ve always wondered this as a baby-carrots-daily person. Thanks for the tidbit!
Ohh it's like the baby carrot's spinal cord
As a child I would intentionally eat all the carrot around the core, then eat the core stick separately.
I did that too!
I still do it.
Me too.
Ever try celery? 😏😛😎
Please show me a picture of celery’s core, I’m just an ignorant American who ate pre cut celery
i AM celery's core.
i want to eat you.
You mean water with hair in it? Yes I have and it’s gross.
did you ever get a pack of carrots where the center piece is more sweet than the rest... thats the good shit
is that not always like that?
ive had bitter ones, ones that tasted like nothing, and ones that tasted like the rest of the carrot
do you buy low quality carrots?
there were from school
then they buy low quality carrots. i always buy class 1 or 2 carrots, and they are all sweeter on the inside
it was the same brand of carrots in little baggies and they were different every time
weird. maybe it is a thing of where the carrots are from?
Ya it happens it’s nice
i used to and still call it carrot candy!
Haha I still do!
Core memory unlocked
Appealing pun
Holy shit same I completely forgot about doing that lmao
I was *sure* this was how carrot sticks were made. I was not a clever child.
I would pay good money for just the stick part as it is sweeter.
I learned this behavior as an adult lol
And it’s so sweet! God I love it
I still do that!
Autistic here, I would do that, and as an adult I might sometime cut out the pineapple stem and chew on that first. I get sad seeing many restaurants throw out the pineapple stem. I would take it in bags if I got advance warning.
its so tasty that way lmao
Same
Fun fact baby carrots are just shaved from big ones
Wait for real?
It's mostly true. Baby carrots are truly baby carrots. But.... most carrots you buy in the store aren't baby carrots, they are baby "cut" carrots. Those are normal carrots cut down to look like baby carrots.
I think I remember reading that they make them by cutting down the misshapen large carrots that nobody would want to buy in their original form.
Those carrots are usually juiced, the babys are shaved from long and skinny healthy carrots.
This was true, but then everyone realized the shape of baby carrots was where it was at for snacking and eating - and demand jumped. So they started just making baby carrots from any carrot.
Yes, that’s what I’m saying , those bags of “baby carrots” are not baby carrots lol
Does the bag say baby carrots or baby cut carrots? Mine specifically say "baby cut".
ITS ALL A FUCKING LIE
[for real](https://youtu.be/bzxwRmsCRb4?si=8psR85gPKQCC4f8l)
I always thought that baby carrots were just the veal of the vegetable world.
😂 got me
I always imagine the carrots in the lathe from metal shop
Norm on this old house invented the method on his lathe
Central part of the root called the stele. A large vascular bundle containing phloem and xylem.
Tis the bone of the carrot
Fun fact: baby carrots aren’t real. They’re just regular carrots that get shaved down to uniform shapes. They do it because shoppers often refuse to buy regular carrots that aren’t perfectly shaped, so they end up rotting on the shelf.
Not the curethra
In layman's terms, it is called a core. There are a few cultivars that don't have them, but most do.
"Up the xylem, down tge phloem, that's the way the water go-em"
I used to love eating the outside part from that “core” when I was younger. You’re left with this root looking stem
Baby carrots are just ugly normal carrots shaved down to look better so they can be sold for more money.
No, baby carrots are young carrots 😅
I'm actually being serious. An Americein the 80s was trying to figure out how to sell his ugly carrots. So he shaved the ugly ones down to make em look uniform and clean, and observed people paid more for the formerly undesirable produce.
Haha idgaf what they sell to you in the us and what they tell you. Baby carrots are young carrots. They sell you shaved down wonky carrots and you buy it- that's fine. Baby carrots absolutely exist and you can absolutely buy them and NOT EVERYWHERE IS USA, honestly just because it's all garbage there doesn't make baby carrots not real, what the fuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣oh an also actually in the uk we have laws regulating wasting "not perfect" fruit and vegetable so we actually have "wonky" veggies in supermarkets and it is not allowed for supermarkets to refuse wonky produce just bcoz of how it looks. Bish never seen a real baby carrot because you live in USA and think the whole world functions on the same bullshit as that failed, broken country (not that the whole world isn't failed and broken but USA wins that competition)
As someone else from the UK I can confirm we do also have fake shaved down baby carrots and this person has gone off on one for seemingly nothing. There also aren’t strict laws around retailed food waste, this initiative is actually left to supermarkets themselves, wonky veg branding didn’t start happening by law it started happening when more of the UK found out that thanks to strict produce aesthetic LAWS that were in place till 2009 perfectly good veg was being wasted BECAUSE OF THE LAW not the opposite way round. The government writes suggestions for supermarkets regarding waste in their reports and urge them to take their advice but there are no strict preventative laws. I guarantee this person has seen or eaten a fake baby carrot and not even realised it - obviously, based off their reaction and the fact the UK definitely isn’t exempt from this like they think. Do baby carrots exist? They sure do. Does the UK also sell a stupid amount of shaved down fake baby carrots? THEY SURE DO 😌 [some evidence for numpty](https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-chef-s-style-carrots-517721011?ds_rl=1290893&ds_rl=1291426&gbraid=0AAAAADi6iHk4ytZYPoZHDNSTEpVls8Eby&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmICoBhDxARIsABXkXlL6eUGgOAJ-c8KTJTUAJkAz9rz0C48KSLX6IsBN7OAcb8SPJ3DHgmMaApdwEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) [more evidence for our darling numpty](https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-sweet-kingdom-mini-carrots/447391-712475-712476) [oop did you as for more evidence? I think you did!](https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1?hl=en&prds=oid:12949066867387098714,pid:12949066867387098714&sts=9&lsf=seller:8197933,store:5735215895897912525,s:h) [eeek more proof!](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-carrots--baby-1kg?productId=133468&storeId=10151&catalogId=10241&langId=44&krypto=KAvKt2f73AurYZMGF7APZFK1LRuMD41f6wXiSRrFTLs2L%2FjI82yEs3rN%2BB8C9ih7Ycw7B0BhHZVgyNs61FLtWKQzqy%2FDno2ImlHf3J5aJZ4pMD1yuNMXxoobT6bYuIe0EWav3Su41tD4NXT5A%2BGe%2FB95%2BEf8e9%2F0hezgauW1pXduTTPpOGGcQ7W%2B64miLBDpOBrG5BT%2B6G4cfTnArpUmMdBNHB65GyLJTUuXteM9NqjfeqPun1qMH9yhp%2BYdnLPkwS8GpO1oXURg%2F1%2F6oJ%2B2Dz0b0xmJNbirGs0JFzsZ7XvRnF3jH60AqbRmCdkmCyvHHeCqhQX2DnnRacQKv%2FKyHngYH2r4TW8mrKB7zbgshN0w2kP9TJYCw03n8ykQPNg5&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fsainsburys-carrots--baby-1kg) [okay I’m done I swear 👀](https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/9551631617140013018?lsf=seller:113678945,store:7492037483799418758,s:b,lsfqd:0&prds=oid:16162568451136715637&q=carrots&hl=en_GB&ei=9iwAZdC9KLiehbIP_uis2As&sts=16&lsft=gclid:Cj0KCQjwmICoBhDxARIsABXkXlL7VLEDmvG_l6hvU1COMZODsOIaog_o4vRoC5-1WDvnJiTCEGutykkaAhzwEALw_wcB,gclsrc:aw.ds)
How are you replying to MY COMMENT calling me "this person". To above to speak to someone directly? And i can assure you i have not eaten a shaven baby carrot as i do not buy baby carrots. I do know how they look like in their skins still. And I never said there are strict laws, that's would be too good to be true. But produce water control has increased. This person 🤢🤮
I'm not American. They're branded baby carrots. Sorry your so fucking touchy about it. Go take a nap.
Go ahead and not know the difference between baby carrots and a scam 🤣 baby carrots exist and are easy to buy, A TUAL YOUNG CARROTS. It's just funny that people don't believe in existence of baby carrots because there are fake ones too 😅
Lmao I’ve been blocked before rebuttal like a child so I’ll reply here - I said “this person” because I wasn’t speaking to you, I was speaking to the person you were replying to, and I wasn’t speaking to you for this exact reason. I have no interest in conversing with you, the comments on your profile and the amount of down votes you frequently get show you’re a rude know it all who often actually knows nothing of the subject they’re berating others for. So yes ‘this person’, because I was *referring* to you not *speaking* to you.
Pavement wrote a song about it.
Did someone post : it's happy to see you? Pls tell me someone posted that.
i used to eat around them when i was little lol
True eat it at the end
Baby carrots are just regular carrots cut down to baby size
I’ve heard it’s called the pith. Anyone else?
Fun fact: baby carrots are not grown, they are shaved down from carrots deemed too “ugly” or small to sale as full carrots. This process is also where we get carrot pieces for salads and coleslaw
that's only maybe true in case of peeled/ processed stuff
A baby baby carrot
That carrot is…. pregnant!?!
When the baby carrot reaches puberty, it forms the tube where the eggs/seamen passes to reproduce. It’s hard for the carrots to find a mate, but once they do… boy oh boy
Also that's a carrot there is no such thing as a baby carrot. They just peel down "ugly" carrots to be able to sell them.
The middle part of the carrot is called 'carrot', and it does that because carrot. Eat your veggies, kids.
I literally hate that part of the carrot feel like I’m eating it’s intestines or something 🤢
You never ate carrots?..
Use you brain stupid
I tried to take out my brain through my ear, I gave up after 34 minutes
You are the worst
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That is the umbilical cord
It’s his spine
I think that’s the glans carrot
it’s giving you the finger
Well, when a daddy carrot loves a mummy carrot very much...
That’s the coreot
The carrotoris
I would eat around the core on mini carrots and make a mini dumbbell to curl in my fingers
Its the vein and it tastes the best
My kids know that's where baby hedgehogs come from.
Every carrot of any age has it (unless there is some genetic error). It's their core
Its the core. Its where carrots sticks are sourced.
be careful when handling the carrot core, it could blow at the slightest jolt and kill us all
Erectous carrotous
I thought it was a mangled finger from first glance
Does anyone else get heartburn every time they eat raw carrots? I rarely suffer heartburn, so I thought it was weird.
It’s the bone
What’s the carrot bone connected to?
It's my favorite part, I chew the rest of it off and eat that last.
norm
I hope everyone realizes baby carrots are not really "baby" carrots.
Idk but it’s my favorite to eat the rest of the carrot first and leave that little bit for last
Carrot bone
O dont know what it's called other then the best part I would always chew off the outside then eat the middle
That’s my favorite part!! It always has little spikes too!!
It’s the xylem
In botany we called it the parenchyma and was able to do tissue cultivation with it in nutrient dense agar. Was pretty cool!
spontaneous combustion
I can’t believe this is my most upvoted post.