Baby Carrots you buy in the Supermarkets Good to Know

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Snopes.com reports some inaccuracies in the widely-emailed report about

baby carrots. To read Snopes' analysis of it, go to

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

 

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_carrot

 

-- Mike

 

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Ronald Halfhill Dba Verdant Ventures [verdant1]

Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:33 PM

 

[southBayVeggies] Fw: Baby Carrots you buy in the Supermarkets

Good to Know

 

 

 

Ron Halfhill

 

Verdant Ventures

570 E. El Camino Real

Sunnyvale, CA 94087

408.720.9146

408.245.9146(fax)

 

Baby Carrots you buy in the Supermarkets Good to Know

 

 

The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages

carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc.

 

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made

using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a

machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots . most people

probably know this already.

 

What you may not know and should know is the following: once the carrots

are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped in a solution

of water and chlorine in order to preserve them (this is the same

chlorine used your pool) since they do not have their skin or natural

protective covering, they give the m a higher dose of chlorine.

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator

for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots, this is the

chlorine which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at risk to

have esthetically pleasing vegetables which are practically plastic?

 

We do hope that this information can be passed on to as many people as

possible in the hopes of informing them where these carrots come from

and how they are processed. Chlorine is a very well known carcinogen.

Please let us make this information available to as many people as

possible. If you care about your family and friends, pass it on.