Chlorine in Your Baby Carrots

Chlorine in Your Baby Carrots: "Chlorine in Your Baby Carrots


The small cocktail or “baby” carrots you buy are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots. You might have known that already. But what you might not know is that 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.
When a baby carrot turns white (“white blushing”), this causes the bags of carrots to be pulled from the shelf and thrown away. To prevent this consumer waste, the carrots are dipped in chlorine to prevent the white blushing from happening."


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Interesting - and we buy these nearly every week! I knew they were misshappen carrots that had been cut down, but it was nice that they were small and easy for the little ones to eat.

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