Are plastic cutting boards healthy?
Regular plastic cutting boards are healthier, because the main material of this cutting board is safe and non-toxic imported high-quality food PP raw materials. However, some inferior plastic cutting boards will add talcum powder, calcium carbonate and other ingredients, and long-term use will have a certain impact on human health.
Regular plastic cutting boards are healthier because such cutting boards are generally made of imported high-quality food PP raw materials, which are safe and non-toxic in principle. However, some businesses will add some inferior materials in order to save production costs and increase the hardness of the cutting board, which may cause certain harm to human health.
If you want to distinguish the pros and cons when buying plastic cutting boards, you can distinguish them from their color, smell, feel, etc. Generally speaking, plastic cutting boards made of high-quality food PP raw materials have uniform color, no pungent odor, smooth surface and no powder similar to talc and calcium carbonate.
Although regular plastic cutting boards are healthier, they still need to be cleaned and disinfected regularly, otherwise there will still be a lot of bacteria left on them. The more common disinfection methods for plastic cutting boards are sunlight disinfection, disinfection, salt disinfection, vinegar disinfection, etc., all of which have a good disinfection effect.
