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How to avoid BPA?
by Geee 4y ago
How to avoid BPA?
- germinalphrase 4y agoAvoid plastics - particularly when it comes to food.
- corrral 4y agoReally hard to do. Better get used to gardening—a lot. Produce? Often wrapped in plastic. Anything canned? Those cans are lined in plastic, so goodbye canned tomatoes. Frozen veggies? Plastic bags. Anything that comes in an apparently paper sack? Probably a plastic liner layer on the inside. If you go extreme with it, you can't even use stuff that comes in glass jars or bottles—the inside of the lid is plastic.
- bergenty 4y agoIt’s relatively easy if you buy fresh fruits and vegetables and meat from a butcher.
- klipt 4y agoI thought the plastic mostly leeches out with heat. So cans with plastic lining: bad, the canning process uses heat. Raw vegetables in a plastic bag? Not so bad, you can wash them and then cook them yourself (but avoid non stick cookware which has PFAS coatings - use stainless steel and cast iron instead).
- germinalphrase 4y agoCommenter asked how to ‘avoid’ BPA, not eliminate it entirely. Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I also think you’re overstating the difficulty of avoiding major sources of BPA. Most cling wrap doesn’t contain phalates. Buy fresh food and cook as much as possible.
- JasserInicide 4y agoI don't have much to back it up, but I think adding heat to the equation is the biggest catalyst to how many chemicals leech into the food. Basically, avoid heating up food in anything plastic.
- bojangleslover 4y agoLiterally everything is wrapped in plastic in the UK
- bergenty 4y agoWrapped is usually fine for fresh foods. You don’t want processed foods in a plastic container.