How Safe Are Your Food Storage Containers?

Water and tin cans, glass bottle lids

A few years ago, I adjusted my family’s diet to include alkaline water after I discovered just how important this is for our body. Most of the food we consume is acidic and our internal organs require alkaline for rebuilding and repairing them. The more passionate I became, the more I studied and learned. Here are some pieces of information. I did publish an article recently with most of this information.  However, when I discovered the importance of length, I decided to republish a shorter version. Not only is the type of water we consume but we need to pay attention to the Food Storage Containers we use.

We have a water ionizer in our kitchen giving us the alkaline water. Many people cannot afford this equipment so they purchase bottled water without thinking about the water or other food storage container. These Plastic water bottles are become today’s popular products. Comments vary widely but some consistent ones are:

·         The plastic used for the food storage container of commercial water breaks down, putting carcinogens into the water

·         The plastic ‘drips’ toxins into the food. Opaque food storage containers prevent the sunlight from breaking down the container toxins, a little better. However, using plastic for the microwave or storage aggravates this.

·         On the bottom of the plastic food storage containers is the grade of plastic.  The higher the grade (on the bottom of the container) is good but I also read that we should use the middle numbers for safety – 2, 3, 4, and 5. Avoid #1 and #7

·         Plastics do not completely break down and simply fill our landfills.

 Bottom line is whenever possible using a glass container is optimum.

Reading about food storage containers usually does not include cans in our minds. We worry about contents but not the repercussions of the can itself

After drinking from a pop can and not pouring the content into a glass, a woman died of Leptospirosis. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine, hence the disease. Rat urine is toxic.

Cans and other commercial food storage containers are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned

A safe approach is washing them with water before opening or putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident. Better yet, wash the lid, then transfer the pop into a clean, glass container and do not drink out of the can, period.