Many people store their lunches and leftovers in plastic — but don’t realize there’s plastic in their food. Credit: Getty/EyeEm
Consider what you’ve eaten today. Perhaps you drank juice from a plastic bottle and coffee from a Keurig pod. For breakfast, you might have had fruit with yogurt. Your lunch salad may have been packed in a plastic container.
There’s a good chance much of what you ingested was packaged, stored, heated, lined, or served in plastic. And unfortunately, there’s mounting scientific evidence that these plastics are harming our health, from as early as our time in our mother’s womb.
Most of our food containers — from bottles to the linings in aluminum cans to plastic wraps and salad bins — are made using polycarbonate plastics, some of which have bioactive chemicals, like bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates.
These man-made chemicals can leach from the containers or wrappings into the food and drinks they’re holding — especially when they’re heated. Research released earlier this yearfound that more than 90 percent of bottled […]
Glass was and still is the best way to store anything. I hate having to but even “organic” food which is stored in plastic instead of glass.
Post Script: The last thing we should do is leave the decision of what to put our food in is the Manufacturing Industry which is only interested in profits; not our health.