FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Baby carrots......not what they are cracked up to be

Orlando Enrique Fiol

wrote:
>Buy organic food, unadulterated food, people.
>What could we possibly have against these cute little ?healthy? snacks that
can be found in school lunchboxes across America? It?s back to school time and
baby carrots are one snack to keep out of your child's lunch.
>It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground that way.
There is no little baby carrot garden where these are harvested. Manufactured
baby carrots are a result of taking all the broken and ?ugly? big carrots they
can?t put in the package, grinding them all up, processing them into the ?baby?
carrots and giving them a bath in chlorine to give them a bright happy orange
color. There are also ?Cut & Peel? baby carrots that are wihddled into a
miniature form.

Nothing about the texture of baby carrots suggests grinding and reassembly,
although they may indeed be cut and rounded from larger carrots.