Baby-Cut Carrots
The cute cocktail carrots you buy in grocery stores come from deformed crooked big carrots. They are put through a machine to become small cocktail carrots. This part everyone knows.
After they are cut to size they are soaked in large vats of water mixed with chlorine to preserve them. The same chlorine you use for your swimming pools and laundry. The reason for this is because they don't have the protection of the skin.
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.
At what cost do we risk our health to have estehetically presentable veggies? Well folks...I think making carrot sticks out of fresh carrots is the smart way to go.