 Speaking of toxic chemicals, last year we learned that some soft drinks have benzene in them. Well, this year another beverage was found to have benzene levels exceeding safety standards. Which one was it? Apple juice, beer, carrot juice, coffee, red wine, or white? It was the carrot juice. There's some natural components in carrot juice that are turned to benzene when you heat it. Now, fresh carrot juice has no benzene, nor do carrots themselves. The safety limit for benzene in drinking water is 1 microgram. Pasteurized carrot juice has that 1 microgram, and bottled twice that. Now, drinking water standards are made to be conservative because they assume you're drinking cups a day, but better to just eat carrots or juice our own.