How to remove string quotes in MySQL 5.7 for function JSON_EXTRACT?

Other than doing string manipulation after each JSON_EXTRACT, is there a simpler or more correct way to have the JSON_EXTRACT return the string WITHOUT the enclosing quotes?

Or should this question be on StachExchange?

If you have MySQL 5.7.13 or later, you may use JSON_UNQUOTE() instead of JSON_EXTRACT() or ->> instead of ->. Example:

SELECT field->>"$.foo.barr" FROM table;

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