Nantes carrot
Daucus carota · Root vegetable
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The Nantes carrot is the classic table carrot: a near-perfectly cylindrical, blunt-tipped root of uniform diameter, with smooth bright-orange skin, deep-orange flesh and a fine, crisp, sweet core that is barely distinguishable from the outer flesh. Tender, juicy and notably low in bitterness, it is the benchmark eating and bunching carrot, prized raw and lightly cooked rather than for long storage.
Picking a good onedrag
Snap-firm, just liftedRubbery, sprouting, soft
Shop firmEveryday bestThe all-rounder: raw, roast, braise, stock.
CrownCut face browning, a little sunken
The bendSnaps, but the break is dry
Skin and tipTaut, matte, tip a little dry
Smell at the cutFaintly sweet, mostly earthy
These cues are Carrot's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
89%
Edible part
61 g · tops and peel off
69 g
Weight each
each one
62%
Juice
620 ml a kilo
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 20× longer than the counter.
98-100%
Humidity
Still air, not sealed
Airflow