Harmless if your dishes?

We all use utensils. Plastic, metal, and not very expensive, one-time - varying. A medical studies show a relationship between our health and the quality of dishes, from which we eat. Check how secure your pots and dishes!

Plastic tableware

It is divided into several types:

- Disposable

- For cold food

- For hot food

- For use in the microwave

- Not for food

Using plastic utensils   It should be strictly prescribed. The plastic composition intended for different purposes, include various organic substances. And if, for example, hot food to pass into a plastic dish for cold foods, it could trigger release of some substances from the plastic in the form of vapor. For health, they can be quite dangerous.

In addition, you can not use   plastic utensils   longer than the specified expiration date on it. And necessarily dispose of the dish with a crack otherwise food can penetrate harmful compounds.

Melamine

Dishes made of melamine, similar to porcelain. But melamine - a kind of plastic. In Europe melamine tableware   banned for sale: as a part of this material have been found harmful to human health chemicals. In particular, formaldehyde - mutagenic poison capable of causing severe allergies, lead and cadmium.

Using melamine tableware can cause diseases of the upper respiratory tract, liver and stomach. Buying plastic bowl, make sure that it is not made of melamine, ask the seller the hygienic conclusion Sanitary inspection.

Metal utensils

Features of use metal utensils   It depends on the coverage

Corrosion

Stainless steel cookware   It contains nickel, which can be quite strong allergen. Moreover, if damaged tableware, food can fall copper and chromium, and then it acquires a "metallic" aftertaste.
Nickel allergy.

Experts do not recommend to cook in a pot of stainless steel vegetable and spicy dishes - they contain acids, corrosive metal. Among the dishes from the stainless steel steamer most harmless. Also worth a look for the dishes on which the mark «nikel free» (without nickel).

Tip: After cooking food stainless steel is better to shift to enamel ware.

Enamel

Harmless enamelware   with enamel surface of white, cream, blue-gray, and black and blue. All other enamels, and particularly bright, have a high content of metals. But when choosing enamelware   should pay attention not only to the color of the enamel surface. Look also labeled Standard.

Whole enamel coating - the most efficient protection of our dishes. It does not allow vapors to penetrate into the food harmful metals, it does not propagate the bacteria. In a bowl well and cook and store food. The main thing - to protect the enamel from scratches and chips.

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