Ingredients · Fresh vegetables

Carrots (fresh)

How long it keeps

About 2 weeks in the fridge

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 279 Carrots, parsnips, 2–3 Weeks, refrigerated from date of purchase · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data

What ends it. It is fresh produce. It starts to wilt, soften and rot from the day it was picked, and the fridge only slows that down. How to make it last longer

Storage

In the fridge, out of the plastic bag if they start to sweat. A medium carrot is about 60 g.

The pack

Typical UK size
1000 g
Weight packed
1010 g
Volume
1500 ml

Computed from net weight and standard pack geometry, not weighed. Manufacturers publish net weight and nobody publishes packed weight or displaced volume, so this is an estimate and is labelled as one.

Per 100 g

Deliberately narrow. These are the five things a long-life diet actually gets wrong, plus energy and protein. It is not a general nutrition model and is not meant to be.

Energy
34 kcal
Protein
0.5 g
Fibre
3.9 g
Vitamin C
2 mg
Vitamin A
1961 µg
Omega-3
0.01 g
Sodium
27 mg

Source: CoFID 2021, 13-496 Carrots, old, raw

1 recipe using carrots (fresh)