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Also know, are baby cut carrots healthy?
AMES, Iowa – Many people choose baby carrots as their snack. They are healthy, full of vitamins, and are easy to eat and feed to children. “That is not the chlorine.” Gatewood explained that baby cut carrots are cut from regular sized carrots.
Thereof, what is wrong with baby carrots?
It is true that these cut-and-shaped carrots are rinsed in a chlorine wash to eliminate bacteria (including E. coli and Salmonella) that can cause food-borne illnesses. I prefer organic whole carrots. But there's no health reason to avoid baby carrots if you like them.
"Manufactured" baby carrots , or cut and peel, are what you see most often in the shops - are carrot shaped slices of peeled carrots invented in the late 1980's by Mike Yurosek, a California farmer, as a way of making use of carrots which are too twisted or knobbly for sale as full-size carrots.