The carrots now used to make 'baby-cut carrots' are typically ones that have been specially bred to contain more sugar than their standard-sized cousins.
Baby carrots are often treated with small amounts of chlorine as an antimicrobial measure to reduce contamination.Advertisment:
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. Prior to the mid-1980s, broken and misshaped carrots were discarded, leaving some farmers with as little as 30 percent of their crop to take to stores. Tired of throwing away perfectly good food, California carrot farmer Mike Yurosek took the carrots and used a potato peeler to reshape them into small pieces more suitable for quick munching.
In order to create thinner vegetables, baby carrots are planted closer together than traditional carrots. In as little as 120 days from planting, the carrots are dug up and trucked to the processing house to be cut and peeled. But before packaging, all carrots receive a brisk scrub accompanied by a chlorine bath.Grimmway Farms uses a chlorine solution on all its carrots — organic and non-organic — to prevent food poisoning, before a final wash in water.
To make"baby-cuts," large sweet carrots are machine cut into 2-inch sections, then abraded down to size, their ends rounded by the same process:
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