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[palango]

I saw this article on yahoo and made me think of this topic.


http://shine.yahoo.c...-rumors-573171/


1.) Baby carrots are preserved with bleach

Not exactly... and there's no reason to stop eating them, says Randy Worobo, PhD, an associate professor of food microbiology at Cornell University. Baby carrots are rinsed (not preserved) in a chlorine wash, recommended by the FDA, to kill bacteria like salmonella and E. coli, which cause foodborne illness. Most precut produce, including frozen veggies and fruit salad, is washed with this or a similar sanitizer.

[ducky]

I saw this article on yahoo and made me think of this topic.


http://shine.yahoo.c...-rumors-573171/


1.) Baby carrots are preserved with bleach

Not exactly... and there's no reason to stop eating them, says Randy Worobo, PhD, an associate professor of food microbiology at Cornell University. Baby carrots are rinsed (not preserved) in a chlorine wash, recommended by the FDA, to kill bacteria like salmonella and E. coli, which cause foodborne illness. Most precut produce, including frozen veggies and fruit salad, is washed with this or a similar sanitizer.

Even so, I'd rather have freshly cut & peeled carrots that didn't have to go through a chlorine wash. They taste so much better.

My sister is allergic to sulfite and has to be careful about fruit salads. A lot of them use that fake lemon juice which contains sulfite to keep the fruit from browning. There's actually a lot of foods she has to be careful of. Poor thing has to carry around an Epi pen.

[Tan's mom]

on a side note is there a Whole foods being built currently in Folsom ? or just on the plan to be built. Whole foods websites shows a store planned for Folsom. Thanks

[Inwit]

on a side note is there a Whole foods being built currently in Folsom ? or just on the plan to be built. Whole foods websites shows a store planned for Folsom. Thanks

It supposedly is going in Palladio, when, I have no idea.

[pet lover]

I agree with posters who say whole carrots peeled and cut taste better!

[4thgenFolsomite]

I'm pretty sure there is chlorine in our drinking water too though. We ingest it on a pretty regular basis in trace amounts with no obvious ill effects. I remember when I came back to Folsom after living with well water for a year and couldn't believe how strong the municipal tap water smelled of chlorine. now I can't taste it at all. now I like it!

[Oldschooler81]

I hope this isn't true - I snack on baby carrots all the time. For some reason they actually seem to taste marginally better than the full sized ones. I suspect most foods probably have SOME ingredient we wouldn't be too crazy about if we really knew, but if that's true I might stay away from them a bit.

P.S. I hate tap water! lol. I completely agree with everyone who says that...I have to have bottled water or at least one of those filters.

[Redone]

Anything on the produce aisle in a bag has been thru a double chlorine wash. Pre-prepped salad , cole slaw, and baby spinach all have been thru chlorine.

[eVader]

I agree with posters who say whole carrots peeled and cut taste better!

We have bought the peeled baby carrots but agree real carrots with the leaves on them look and taste better to us. We are growing more and more of our own veggies and using more of the fresh produce at the store because as Dave said, a big bag of carrots are cheap and they last a long time.

[BobbiMcGee]

Watch to movie Food Inc. It's on netflix as an instant watch. Follow that with Super Size me and reflect.

We watched that on Netflix streaming video a couple months ago. Good movie. It really makes you think twice when you go to the grocery store. I try to shop mainly on the outside aisles where the unprocessed stuff is. It's not as interesting as all the bright labeled, highly advertised processed stuff, but I rarely buy anything processed that looks anything like what the label shows. On the labels you see this big fat stuffed burrito or fish stick and then you open it up and see a flattened, sickly looking breaded thing.

It supposedly is going in Palladio, when, I have no idea.

Is there any timetable on the Whole Foods and the rest of the stores in Palladio? It sure seems to be moving slow.

[aztransplant]

Is there any timetable on the Whole Foods and the rest of the stores in Palladio? It sure seems to be moving slow.

City of Folsom website still says "TBD" on Whole Foods. Barnes & Noble supposedly coming to Palladio "First Quarter 2011." That's it so far as I can tell.

[folsom500]

I'm pretty sure there is chlorine in our drinking water too though. We ingest it on a pretty regular basis in trace amounts with no obvious ill effects. I remember when I came back to Folsom after living with well water for a year and couldn't believe how strong the municipal tap water smelled of chlorine. now I can't taste it at all. now I like it!

Folsom does have periodic issues with a heavy chlorine smell in the water. Mostly in the fall or winter when the lake is low it seems. I do drink the water but mostly only in boiled tea and taking my pills. Otherwise I put it in a container that I leave open in the fridge for at least 24 hours before drinking it.

[eVader]

Is there any timetable on the Whole Foods and the rest of the stores in Palladio? It sure seems to be moving slow.

As soon as Whole Foods opens I predict a debate about how expensive it is compared to (fill in the blank) cough, cough WinCo, Grocery Outlet. Forum has already had its debates with Raleys, Safeway, Trader Joes, Nugget, Costco, Sam's, WinCo...time for round II?

[4thgenFolsomite]

if chlorine is bad for you, why do we swim in it? I'll bet the water in the public pool is so chlorinated it will turn your hair green. wouldn't that be harmful as well and wouldn't we have known about it by now?