Comments on: Baby Carrots and Bleach: Yum-Yum

By: Laura Roberts

Laura Roberts — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:33:31 +0000

A new webpage http://www.truthaboutbabycarrots.com is up and it dispels a lot of the myths surrounding carrots and chlorine. Interesting stuff.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:39:47 +0000

This post is an embarrassment to Eco Child’s Play. I sure hope Jennifer doesn’t figure out that chlorine is also in salt, she’ll have a fit when she does!

By: Chlorineman

Chlorineman — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:34:22 +0000

This ‘Chlorine’ each of you keep speaking of is most likely sodium hypochlorite also know as chlorine bleach. It is used a a disinfectant and antimicrobial in many industries. It is made by reacting a sodium hydroxide solution (also know as caustic soda or lye) with elemental chlorine gas. All of these chemicals are made from sodium chloride, also known as salt. Next time do some research. Look up cholera if you want a glimpse of what the world was like before the wide availability of chlorine disinfection.

By: Fastfreddy

Fastfreddy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:20:14 +0000

Why would anyone want a peeled carrot anyway,all the vitamin content has been removed and sold as beta carotene. Baby carrots aren’t even baby carrots, they are whats leftover from processing all the good out of the carrot. You would have to eat a whole bag to get the benifit of one carrot. If you want the benifits of eating veges, eat the peel.

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:20:18 +0000

This is another urban myth. Some baby carrots are washed in a WEAK chlorine solution and then washed in clean water. This solution is perfectly safe and passed by the Dept of Agriculture. Anyone stupid enough to waste their money on “baby” carrots is stupid enough to believe this rubbish.

Organic growers use Citrox a “safe” natural alternative.

The answer? eat whole carrots or cut them up yourself.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:36:47 +0000

Chlorine added to the water, just like tap water. This doesn’t mean that the carrots are dipped in bleach as your headline implies.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:43:35 +0000

No molly that is not why, and the reason is that this article is semi-fictional.

The white blush has nothing whatsoever to do with chlorine, and echochildsplay should be ashamed of themself for posting fiction. The white blush is simply dehydration and is caused because the carrot is peeled.

Baby carrots are not “deformed”, they are regular carrots that are cut into small pieces.

Yes they do wash them in chlorinated water – it’s called tap water, which has chlorine in it. (They sometimes also use somewhat stronger concentrations, maybe the level of pool water. You can’t dip anything in chlorine anyway – it’s a gas, so that part of the post was also fiction.)

The article that this post linked to has more information – perhaps next time read it?

ecochildsplay – you should issue a retraction.

By: molly

molly — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:56:27 +0000

I always wondered why I couldn’t eat those baby carrots — they make my mouth feel like I am having an allergic reaction (I am allergic to tree nuts — so I know the feeling). Maybe this is why!