DANGER TO YOUR FAMILY!!
From the Department of Life Education:
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!!!!
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
lolno, that is called carrots without skin drying out.
Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes Cancer.
Chlorine is not categorized as a known human carcinogen. Nor is there any particular evidence that low levels of chlorine (such as in tap water) are
carcinogenic.
The "solution of chlorine" is probably just dilute bleach. It may be another preservative as well such as a sulfite or ascorbic acid. GammaFunction - 5-2-2013 at 18:59
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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).
Even more worryingly, some supermarkets are known to spray their veggies with undiluted hydroxilic acid, often while people are shopping a few feet
away. The mist drifts around, and can be inhaled. Children are particularly sensitive; the CDC estimates that about 200 deaths annually among 1-14
year olds are directly attributable to hydroxilic acid overdose. Traveller - 5-2-2013 at 19:26
That stuff sounds almost as scary as di-hydrogen monoxide!hissingnoise - 6-2-2013 at 02:55
Hazardous compounds always have a multiplicity of names . . .
Nickbb - 6-2-2013 at 03:10
I don't ever believe this stuff. The white stuff is mold, and they say it is 'chlorine that is resurfacing', that is very vague and doesn't make any
sense. But anyways it is not good to eat moldy carrots so I assume you should throw them out if they turn white.bahamuth - 6-2-2013 at 04:44
The only thing more infinite than human imagination is human stupidity...unionised - 6-2-2013 at 07:03
Last time I checked:
Carrots are orange
Chlorine is a very effective bleach.
I therefore conclude that if they treat carrots with chlorine, they don't use very much of it.
I also have some vague feeling that I might be exposed to chlorine via other routes. Glucose Oxidase - 6-2-2013 at 12:40
I don't want to sound like and expert (cause i am not ) but bleach (or more generally chlorine+water) is NOT poisonous and that is proven correct
because around here they use chlorine to sanitize water (yes , third world country no costly ozone) and i drink from the water tap yet never died or
had any cancer hope that answers your questionEndimion17 - 6-2-2013 at 13:06
The first post is obviously a Facebook scam. Chlorine is not a carcinogen, vegetables are not treated with chlorine and even if they did, they'd turn
white immediately. No "chlorine resurfacing", LOL. Chlorine is way too reactive to just wait in the carrot tissue. It immediately reacts with the
water to form hypochlorite anions which then rip the shit out of conjugated double bonds which give plants their colour.
