Baby Carrots – 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.
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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 which are practically plastic.
We do hope that this information can=2 0be 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 (Cancer causing).