Why is carrot juice so sweet?

Question

Certain brands of carrot juice taste sweeter than any raw carrot I ever eaten, yet are made only of carrots, with no added sweeteners. Are carrots sold in supermarkets just not ripe?

Answer 1

If you juice your own carrots you would see how sweet your carrots actually are.

When you juice a carrot, you are extracting the liquid portion (which contains the majority of the sugars) from the cellulose. Since the cellulose is somewhat flavorless — it tastes pretty much like paper pulp — you are essentially creating "concentrated carrot" flavor, which is why it tastes so much sweeter than when you eat it whole.

Answer 2

Carrots have a high sugar content.