If You're Wondering How Microplastics Even Get In Your Food, Read This
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Experts reveal what to look out for, from our water sources to the plastic that our food is wrapped in.
Food contaminants are always a hot topic, as we consumers have a natural desire to know exactly what we’re putting in our bodies when we purchase, prepare and eat our groceries. Social media broadens the audience for these conversations and debates, and over the course of the past year, we saw one food safety subject rise to the top of the algorithm: microplastics.
TikTok couldn’t stop talking about microplastics and why they should be avoided … but what, exactly, are microplastics? How do they get into our food, and what potential health consequences can arise as a result?
We turned to a group of food scientists, physicians and food safety experts to get some answers, and they provided a full tutorial on these much-discussed particles.
What are microplastics?
“Microplastics are tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in size, often invisible to the naked eye,” explained Dr. John La Puma, founder of ChefMD and Chef Clinic. To give some context for that size, Jessica Gavin, a certified food scientist located in Orange County, California, told us that microplastics are generally “about as small as a pencil eraser.”
It impacts how your body digests it, absorbs its nutrients and even responds metabolically after you eat it.
It impacts how your body digests it, absorbs its nutrients and even responds metabolically after you eat it.
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