Baby Carrots...

[BOSS]

This is something worth reading and we all should give some thought to.
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 in your pool).

Since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them 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?

Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes Cancer..

I thought this was worth passing on. Pass it on to as many people as possible in hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed.

I used to buy those baby carrots for vegetable dips. I know that I will never buy them again!!!!


Confirmed by Snopes
Time for dinner...gotta run......

 

[TGDragonfly]

Gez, my baby girls eat a couple of bags a week. Thanks for the info.

 

[Carol Bice]

Don't they dip most foods in clorine or clorox water? I know they do chicken and other meats and lots of vegetables. Do you know of for sure that they don't dip most foods at some point of the processing.

I'm glad we changed our swimming pool to salt water instead of clorine.

Carol Bice

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

Don't they dip most foods in clorine or clorox water? I know they do chicken and other meats and lots of vegetables. Do you know of for sure that they don't dip most foods at some point of the processing.

I'm glad we changed our swimming pool to salt water instead of clorine.

Carol Bice

Carol...I'm bring my baby carrots to YOUR pool!!

 

[greatflowerlady]

We have a pet bunny and he will not touch any store bought veggies, he sniffs and turns away.. bagged lettuces, carrots some apples.. What does that say. But he eats all fresh grass and wheat grass outside!!

 

[Trinity]

Before you all boycot baby carrots, this is just bunk. Snopes does confirm that ALL fresh ready to eat veges are dipped in a chlorine wash then rinsed several times. It kills the bacteria. If you stop eating baby carrots, you might as well give up all fresh produce. Since baby carrots are whittled down from deformed carrots and the like, the entire surface is a cut surface. The white that occurs is dehydration of the cut surface and if you cut a regular carrot the same thing will happen.
Hope this clears up any confusion.

 

[desndennis]

Bunk or no bunk,, the FDA allows far to many chemicals in the foods we humans ingest!

 

[BOSS]

I'm glad we changed our swimming pool to salt water instead of clorine.

Carol Bice

Huh..say what?

 

[RWK]

Ummm....Not to be 'snarky' but, all those chemicals used to 'treat' food.....can be easily eliminated from our diets......by going to your local farmer's markets and buying the food just pulled up outta the ground.

Did I mention that it just plain tastes better too?


I mean - we already done put about 20 quarts of fresh garden grown peas in the freezer along with about 10 quarts of fresh butterbeans.....not counting squash, okra, tomatoes, and other stuff.

 

[Carol Bice]

Huh..say what?

I just felt that since we probably ingested lots of clorine water when we swim...the salt water should be better for us. Maybe so or maybe not.
lol I don't want to turn white like the baby carrotts.

For years, I have brought my fresh fruit home from the store and dipped it all in water with a touch of clorox before storing it in the refrigerator. So, is this a bad thing to do or good?

Carol Bice

 

[Missy]

I just felt that since we probably ingested lots of clorine water when we swim...the salt water should be better for us. Maybe so or maybe not.
lol I don't want to turn white like the baby carrotts.

For years, I have brought my fresh fruit home from the store and dipped it all in water with a touch of clorox before storing it in the refrigerator. So, is this a bad thing to do or good?

Carol Bice

Well, this certainly explains what happened to poor Michael Jackson, too much time in his pool

 

[Connie]

Too funny Melissa!

Yum! Baby carrots! One of my favorite foods.

While I was still teaching art in middle school, some years I had to take a class to the lunchroom. It was a really rough school, and teachers were required to remain with their classes at all times, even going through the lunch line with them. A lunch period was 25 minutes from the time we left our classroom until we returned. I started taking a snack-size Ziplock bag filled with baby carrots to eat while going through the line with the students. Then I ate a container of yogurt when we were all seated (One does not even have to chew yogurt, so it could be swallowed in 5 minutes!). I learned to love those carrots, and soon everyone was munching on baby carrots at lunch.

Sorry for the hijack, but baby carrots bring back those memories.

 

[lori042499]

Your tap drinking water is treated with chlorine too....

what do you think algae is controled with???

 

[Dior]

I love those baby carrots too! Me and Cork (avatar pix) have carrot parties all the time. I've recently started a small holistic pet food biz now and am acutely aware of bad stuff, but geez, I guess giving him carrots instead of the ole dog bisquits filled with corn, wheat, soy and animal by-products--beyond gross! isn't a much better choice, huh?

 

[TGDragonfly]

I love those baby carrots too! Me and Cork (avatar pix) have carrot parties all the time. I've recently started a small holistic pet food biz now and am acutely aware of bad stuff, but geez, I guess giving him carrots instead of the ole dog bisquits filled with corn, wheat, soy and animal by-products--beyond gross! isn't a much better choice, huh?

I have some cases of Dogwa left over from an event if you want them.

 

[marie g bushnell]

Oh My didn't know that and I buy the baby carrots all the time. I thought they grew a new variety!

Thanks for that info.

 

[RWK]

Ya'll gonna hate me......I'm not a huge fan of carrots....but to go out into a garden and pick a real 'baby carrot' - Even for a non-carrot fan, dems purty good eatin'

 

[Dior]

I have some cases of Dogwa left over from an event if you want them.

I meet a lot of grass eaters in the local doggie parks that would scoff up the Dogwa!