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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Something you should read! Baby Carrots


Baby Carrots:
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:

 

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