Received this email from a friend. Does anyone know if this is true??????
Did you know this about 'baby' carrots?
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 aesthetically 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?
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OMG,I just bought some to go with dill dip for the 4th,looks like I will be cutting real carrot stix!
1ewww...
2I am not sure if it is true or not? If anyone knows or has heard of this....
3I just checked on snopes.com, one of my favorite sites. Below is the link.
4http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp
thanks td. I guess it depends what brand of manufacturer does what.....
5Not so true, see the link attached. http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp
6since hoaxs spread because people do not READ, I will spell it out
this email is HOAX, it is catorizied as urban legend, hoaxes, scam, false rumor, urban myths, folklore,
QUOTE "As for the "white film" thee-mailed alert claims is the "chlorine coming to the surface," that white blush is caused by dehydration of the cut
if you to pull a carrot from your own garden, slice it it half and place it in your refrigerator, it too would manifest that same whitish appearance on the cut portion once the carrot dried out a bit.
Cocktail carrots are more prone to develop this only because their entire surface area is a cut surface. To keep cocktail carrots from drying out, store them at low temperature and in a high relative humidity environment."
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