Something about 'baby' carrots. This arrived in my email today, from a

[Marg CDN]

Chemistry prof.

Did you know this about "baby" carrots?

Some of the 'cute' cocktail carrots that you buy in grocery stores come from

deformed crooked big carrots. They are put through a machine to

become small cocktail carrots. This part everyone knows. After they

are cut to size they are soaked in large vats of water mixed with

chlorine to preserve them........ The same chlorine you use for

your swimming pools. The reason for this is because they don't have

the protection of the skin so they use a good amount of chlorine.

Notice that after you have stored them in the fridge for a while ,a

white film forms on them.....it's the chlorine coming to the surface.

At what cost do we risk our health to have esthetically presentable

VEGGIES .....?????? Well Folks...... I think after reading this we

will all start making our own carrot sticks out of fresh carrots and

keep them in the fridge in water ( a few at a time), right? Shop carefully!

 

[curious1]

I've seen this, here's what Snopes has to say, personally, I don't buy them.

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp

 

[sylvia]

Those baby carrots are yucky. But, by soaking carrots in water you lose the Vitamin A.

 

[rvb]

just remember - if they're called baby carrots, that's what they should be...

(look for a small core in the right place).

it's the ones called baby cut that you should avoid.

this way the good guys and the bad guys are still legal with truth in labeling.

 

[karennoca]

Go to the organic section of your grocery store and buy those lovely, slender

organic carrots. There is no better carrot than these. I peel them as I want them. Takes 10 seconds.