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What is the best material for chopsticks?

First, chopsticks are made of bamboo, and bamboo chopsticks are the first choice.

Bamboo chopsticks are non-toxic and harmless, which is very environmentally friendly. You can also choose natural wooden chopsticks. However, bamboo chopsticks and wooden chopsticks are not easy to clean due to material reasons, and have strong water absorption and adsorption, and often have detergent residues, which are easily contaminated by pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, we should pay attention to frequent disinfection, keep it clean, avoid mildew and long hair, and need to replace it regularly.

Second, the characteristics of other materials chopsticks:

1, traditional wooden chopsticks

First of all, don't use chopsticks coated with colored paint, because the heavy metal lead and organic solvent benzene in the paint are carcinogenic, and once the paint on chopsticks falls off, it will enter the human body with food, which will seriously endanger people's health. In particular, some families like to use colorful painted chopsticks for their children. Children have low tolerance to lead and benzene, so they must be avoided.

Secondly, ordinary plastic chopsticks are brittle and easy to deform and melt after being heated, resulting in substances harmful to human body; Bone chopsticks have a good texture, but they are easy to change color and expensive.

2, metal materials:

Metal chopsticks such as silver and stainless steel are too heavy, feel bad and have strong thermal conductivity. Eating overheated food can easily burn your mouth. It depends on whether it is food-grade stainless steel. If inferior stainless steel tableware is used, or stainless steel tableware is used improperly, it may cause the harm of heavy metals to human health.

When using titanium chopsticks, there is no need to worry that heavy metals are harmful to human body. Titanium chopsticks are nontoxic, harmless and easy to clean, and are lighter than stainless steel and silver chopsticks.

3, ceramic chopsticks:

I believe everyone knows chopsticks, because we use them every day. We are most familiar with bamboo chopsticks and wooden chopsticks. It can be said that chopsticks are very close friends in our lives, and because of this, people's requirements for chopsticks are becoming more and more strict, not only easy to use and practical, but also healthy and environmentally friendly. So we invented ceramic chopsticks. Ceramic chopsticks are safer, healthier and very durable.