Plastics in Food: 5 Everyday Foods High in Microplastics
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Do you know there are plastics in food? How much plastics do we eat? Alejandro Alba is giving us the tea on common food and drinks that are high in microplastics.
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The fact that you can’t drink water or eat food without consuming plastic is disgusting.
@Edward Colindres Nobody wants to go through their life drinking distilled water.
@@gummy5862 also distilled water is unhealthy, because our body need some minerals from water.
Goes to your brain
@@uluhitah12 distilled water is good, just re-mineralize it
@@MiguelHernandez-pt1kl how?
We need to hold the manufacturer accountable for the disposable of plastic they make!! They make it and should have a way to recycle it for the consumers! We need to start helping eachother! Companies are to blame, governments also!!
How about people stop BUYING plastics! If it’s not selling they will eventually will stop making.
@@amechealle5918 I would like to disrespectfully disagree. I work in a store and almost everything comes either in a plastic bag or in some sort of plastic wrap. at this point if we were to stop using plastic it would need to be replaced with something else entirely. we use plastic literally for everything.
And we all know by now that we can't trust our government, period!
@@nighthawksim6675 exactly, the manufacturer has to make a alternative! It has to be refromed top to bottom, not bottom to top! 😉
@@nighthawksim6675 duh because we used plastic on everything. Just cause it’s modern man don’t make it’s smart.
Every day I show my Grandaughter videos about plastic. Almost every piece of plastic ever made is still on earth. I hate the way almost every thing we buy is encased in plastic.
Every Day??? She's going to have nightmares about plastic. She's going to feel like nothing else is as important.
Your generation caused this.
Human civilization has focused so much on aesthetics and "modernizing"
What about Planet Maintenance!?!?
I appreciate these videos but there’s nothing the average everyday consumer can do to fix these problems. We can use less plastic in our lives where possible, but these companies need to be held responsible to what they’re doing to us and this planet since someone is generally going to buy their product in plastic
it takes collective action:
1) individuals need to be educated and informed enough to push for laws and regulations
2) government need to regulate companies in production and disposal/collection of plastic packaging
3) money need to be removed from politics in order for laws and regulations to not be dictated by whoever has the most money to lobby and donate
companies are never going to grow a conscience and start practicing the production of eco friendly, sustainable products, packaging and logistics of it - their number one and only priority is to make as much profit as possible
if individuals are not knowledgeable, how can any pressure be applied?
@@ito_tofu5324 Honestly I'm pessimistic about this issue. I feel like so many institutions are bought and paid for as well as multiple levels of the government being corrupt. I don't think this issue will ever really get solved honestly. You listed some good ideas but doubt this will ever be solved maybe in the next two generations.
@@ito_tofu5324 bad, dont give the power and responsability of your actions to your goverment and state, we already have it, by stop buying these products and critizice brands online, the brands just care about money, and for that they need to see what the people want, if people chose buying other brand cause of their good and clean product, the other one will have to change, if not, theyre going to broke. Is more efficient and real, when the state regulates, makes deficit everywhere and doesnt solve the problem
Stop recycling.
It’s called VOTING
Microplastics are in anything that has water in it, use water in the growing/manufacturing process, and are stored/shipped in. We use water for almost everything so microplastics are in everything.
blackpill.
@@ThineLesser the black pill in AHS double feature
@Edward Colindres It's all I drink. I take supplements, I don't need mineral water .
@Edward Colindres unless contained in glass, it will have microplastics too.
We used to live in a world without all this plastic packaging but it will mean we can’t buy in bulk. I’ve tried to go plastic free it’s impossible especially if you take medication, we need to demand companies make glass and recyclable options
Yup we can at least reduce plastic consumption...avoid snacks or useless things in supermarkets
We need to make stuff that decomposes as well
@@tazboy1934 I compost and do as much as I can but if I want spinach or salad it’s in plastic. The burden isn’t on consumers companies need to be forced to use glass, cardboard ect…
Most plastic used is for theft control. Stop stealing and we will all be better off.
@@annamarielewis7078 there are other ways to stop theft, and it won’t stop someone with a pair of scissors with a plan. A lot of plastic is so people can see the product. There are solutions to less plastic but companies don’t want to take the leap.
Our world is so messed up, that practically nothing is safe to eat anymore
It's between fluoride, microplastics or cheap chemicals
Yup
You got that right , I grow my own food & I am sure there is still some pollution in it probably chem trails .
Well that's terrifying
I recently watched a video showing that animal feed contains plastics due to the recycling of packaged food waste into livestock feed. Bags and the food inside are ground up, made into pellets. This is then given to livestock animals that are slaughtered for human consumption. It would be interesting to find out how much plastic is absorbed into the animal tissue and what is excreted as waste.
Anyone that cares about the environment and has access to plant protein shouldn't be eating animals anyways
@@Bot-tm7hs vegans that encourage kindness and consideration for others lives, shouldn’t be so arrogant just because they made an educated decision for themselves and their lifestyle. It makes the whole lot of snobby vegans AND veganism unappealing.
@@PorterWood09 my comment does sound judgemental and rude, I apologize for that. You can believe this or not, and it isn't an excuse, but my tone comes from sadness and anger at society, not from arrogance. Im aware that not killing animals doesn't make me a god, or even necessarily a decent person. I still contribute to climate change and suffering, and am honestly not even a particularly good person in general. Im pretty bitter about the state of the world, and I am sorry if I hurt you because of that
@@Bot-tm7hs I’ll take you at your word. Apology accepted. I’ve just run I to so many that i make an effort, regardless of how eat personally, to not be associated with vegans, and fire back at their arrogance. I love animals. They give so much to our lives and each is an individual with family and expresses love when given a chance. They give up their lives for us. I don’t take that for granted.
@@PorterWood09 they don't give up their lives willingly. Their lives are taken from them.
Plastic isnt the main issue, its the extreme production of it along with extreme consumerism
As a tea fanatic I almost cried when he said tea. Luckily I only use paper tea bags but I'm definitely switching to loose now, especially since I have a tea pot for it.
I literally JUST made a hot cup of tea. Dammit...I'm trying to be healthy over here!!!
Just cant win.
Loose leaf tea metal infuser or French coffee press all on Amazon
I used to mow grass at a old plastic manufacturing business and the dirt was fifty percent plastic or more and was every color of the rainbow 🌈
Exactly. It's all over the planet now. There will wind up the surface of the planet 99% plastic and more barren and lifeless than Mars.
They told us, "Use plastic bags, they're better for the environment." This was before bottled water, of course.
Most microplastic in ocean is acrylic fiber.
Put a fine mesh bag over the drain hose on your washing machine. Those fibers a red e from your clothes. Cotton, linen, and rayon fibers are digested as harmless carbohydrates.
Synthetic fibers are spun plastic, usually polyester or acrylic.
Please dont buy polyester FLEECE or anything acrylic, and wash acryllics as little as possible.
Many plastics are engineered to break down into small fragments to reduce the room they take up in landfills. Unfortunately, the plastic is just smaller and more likely to end up as microplastics.
Great information thank you!
I’m just going to eat air until corporations stop polluting :(
Its in the air
DUUUUDE YOURE A REAL ONE FOR THIS! could you talk about the micro plastics in fast food restaurants and every day foods? This topic is so important and should be discussed more
Exactly. It's been reported there much more microplastics in fast "food." Sonething about the fast "food" packaging.
The air you breathe has micro plastics in it. Bottled water, tap water, and the food you eat also has micro plastics in it, especially seafood. No amount of personal change can stop you from consuming micro plastics entirely. Even if all plastic producing companies were to stop producing plastics and we stopped littering, you would still be consuming and inhaling the micro plastics from decades ago that are still here today. :/
So youre saying add more plastics to the environment for future generation until people cant populate. Smart.
the best course of action is to avoid as much plastic consumption as possible as a collective nation in order to change market trends gradually over time into a more sustainable goods economy. It will not happen overnight but change starts when each and every one of us accepts to go through the hardship of avoiding plastics in our personal lives for the sake of those in the future. We are currently tasked with this single choice to make in order to turn the tides of our futures. Either make a good choice, inspire others and drown out the bad choices or be on the opposing end of that spectrum. I'd like to at least be apart of those who say they will try.
on a side note: there are innovations out there to actually treat plastic contaminated waters thus removing them from the cycle of our food chain. These innovations however will continued to be suppressed if we give up and ignore them because "ahh well plastic is everywhere anyways." We need to totality uplift they way we think and perceive our world to make good and honest change for the better.
Tea bags (loose is better), Sea salt (rock salt is better), mollusks and crustaceans and salmon and tuna, beer, water supply
I would never use rock salt. It’s processed with trace amounts of rat poison, bleach to make it white, and then coated in sugar so it doesn’t stick together.
And tap water is highly contaminated in rat poison. Read your bottle label, too--if it says “from a municipal source,” it’s tap water.
Sounds like the tea solution is just to take it out of the bag and put it in a metal mesh tea ball. Even paper tea bags have bleach in them if the paper is white. --Love how you showed the Starbucks tea for this. Their coffee making process has also garnered them a legally required cancer warning in California.
Bad enough there are microplastics. But there are chemicals and drugs in the water as well.
Wow, talk about random luck: I don't drink tea, I don't like salt, I don't like sea food, I filter my water, and I don't use plastic water bottles. I am sure it's in all the other stuff that I consume as well but it's nice to know I avoid the top offenders.
"If you want to avoid eating a lot of micro plastics, just eat food with less micro plastics!" Thanks...I guess?
Make petroleum companies do the R&D on how to clean up all their garbage. All on their own dime. Its only fair.
Plastic must be banned right now from the world
I miss waxed paper and when frozen produce was in cardboard instead of plastic bags and caps were metal instead of plastic, and milk cartons and juice cartons were just folded with glue instead of using plastic caps. Most people in younger generations don't even know about these options. The plastic industry has been pushing their products in the name of being less expensive for that long.
I'm drinking tea right now! Ah!!!!!!!!!!!
😅
I remember a time when people used loose tea. Even though they'd been around a long tome when i was born in 68, most adults around me used a pot and loose tea, which is so much nicer.
People adapt to a change in habit well. We started recycling with no issue. So if we had opportunity to take our own containers and have them filled with produce, lots of people would prefer this. Its been tried a few times in my city since the 80s, and i think its often regulations that make it impossible to continue as a business. The controllers love using cancer causing plastics, they want us sick and in early graves.
It’s official. Nothing is safe.
Everything we spend money on contributes to this problem. The clothes we wear and wash. The detergent used to wash those close. Where that cleaning water runs off to. The life that lives in that water and moves it’s way up the food chain to our plates. And that’s one of the simple cycles. We are now a plastic world. So many don’t know. More don’t seem to care. The ones that know and care barely know what can be done about it.
I saw another documentary where they said that the average American consumes a credit card size of plastic per week. I'm 70 years old and I'm going back to when I was a child when we put everything in the refrigerator in glass and I'm throwing out all the plastic and I will not buy plastic ever again
He is distractingly good-looking. I'll have to rewatch this to actually listen to the plastics bit.
Fun fact: half of all the plastics in the ocean is from commercial fishing. So eating less or no more fish has more benefits than not using plastic straws and everything else.
Yep, we can eat algae like Chlorella for our health instead of fish
@@vietnamd0820 yep, cause omega three fatty acids come from the algae the fish consume. They don’t produce it themselves.
Feels like I can't eat anything anymore
Good point thanks!
Thank you for reporting on this subject.
"Why isn't he decomposing?"
"Must be the micro plastics"
😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶
you do know that we are all breathing in microplastics right now, right?
i'd rather you focus on reducing the source of microplastics, rather than trying to avoid their effects.
humans reap what they sow, you know.
Scary to think of all that plastic. We should definitely promote hemp production.
Yeah, I have read an article about it months ago, and since then don't use plastic tea bags
I wish you had included your research sources. I have been looking for studies and supporting evidence of this issue.
Thanks! This video was really great, not just inform, but give a solution as well!
But yet they don't give you a list of bottle water brands for one could stop drinking them. Well it's time to do my own research or just keep drinking them.🤷🏻♀️
Tea
Salt
Seafood
Beer
Water
I heard that car tyres also releases microplastic in the air
We don’t have any hope.
I’m glad the last black and white horror clip used was from “Carnival of Souls”.
"microplastics" is not a unit of measure. Would have been infinitely more helpful, if you had defined some things in more detail.
I was worried coffee would be on this list.
You don't have to make tea at 230 degrees..
Heat your tea water in a glass container, and consume your tea in a glass container, is the most advisable
Honestly, this problem can be solved by good government, we cant rely on citizen much, most world population is poor, people don't care about stuff like these coz they strugling to eat everyday, most of them even don't care if the food they ate healthy or not.
All of this is so frustrating. We humans are so slow to change all of these issues and time is running out for us.
Great journalism thank you
We are doomed. 😐
Facts
True. The host is trying to warn the humans about the insane amount of plastics they're destroying the environment with and eating plastics instead of food destroying their bodies with plastic leaching chemicals caused cancers and plastics clogging up their arteries heart disease and all half the commentors can seem to focus on is "how cute he is." Humanity is indeed doomed.
Jeez I was wondering couple days a go if plastics particles can be absorbed by plants through its roots and that bit at the end confirmed it, micro plastics in apple??!!
Could you please provide links to the studies you mentioned?
coming soon: natural herbal plastic detox solution, to an inbox near you!
This guy gets it
If it actually worked, heck yeah
Humans destroy everything in nature.
[and the host is soooo adorable]
Lmao honestly the host is why I clicked on the video.
We need to radically change current economic system to do better
Really? Keep it in your pants, all you people think about is below belt level, isn't it?
Agreed! Anyone would be tempted to pinch those... cheeks... even if he is just telling you about an oncoming apocalypse! 😍
@@zwiastunburzy7188 exactly!!!
THANK YOU!!! 🦋
I wish they would stop selling bottled water. With some many pitcher/filters out their, there really is no need for it anymore. I am a huge tea drinker, so will definitely have to see if my bags are paper, if not, guess I'll be switching to loose tea. We also are switching from our reusable plastic cups to, stainless steel ones from Green Steel & the come with stainless steel straws with a brush to clean the straws. Manufacturers need to go back to using glass, as well, for beer/soda bottles. In P.A. we have beer distributers & the have/had return programs. Once you were done with a case, you returned it to the distributer, you got a deposit back on next case(s) (which were made of wood, although Bamboo would now be a better sustainable source) they sent it back to the manufacturer & the bottles were sanitized/disinfected & then refilled.
Well done. The amount of plastics can definitely be reduced.
Yes the deposit system needs to come back on everything.
How do you get away from it? I try but even my salad greens come in plastic containers.
Mostly non recyclable plastic containers at that. Drives me crazy!
And most people dont know those aren't recycling symbols on all that plastic, they are resin codes. And only numbers 1 and 2 have any chance at being recycled in most areas.
And they’ll be truly recycled only if they’re in the form of bottles. The plastics used in clamshells, buckets and similar food packaging are different in properties from the ones used to make bottles, and most buyers of recycled 1 and 2 only want the bottle form. In most places, those number 1 food tubs and clamshells will not be bought for reuse. So, avoid buying food packaged in them when you can.
You don't.
Grow ur own in a window sill
bring your own produce bags to a farmers market to purchase produce
I have a compost I was putting my tea bags in their it got full up
so I left it for 3 years when I looked the tea bags were still there and the bits which would paper dissolved but the plastic was there: {
It would be great if could link to the studies that you mention in this video.
If I can’t get loose tea, I empty the tea contents from the bags
I have switched to herbal teas…. No milk
I mainly use Himalayan salt
I only use extra Virgin olive oil, in a glass bottle
Don’t use plastic containers, only glass.
Just a few changes I’ve made.
Yes, who would question walking around drinking clear fluid from a mason jar?
Who cares! Being "normal" is destructive to the environment and your health
Although microplastics consumption is a serious issue, it is a delight when you put a movie clip for comedic relief!
Most micro plastics are from lint fibers that get flushed into local waterways when we wash our clothes. It's Insane how much of our clothing is made from plastics.
Excellent point. I try to stick with cotton or wool.
Know of any non plastic clothing brands that aren't 100$ for a single shirt?
@@voreincorporated3056 a Hanes cotton three pack
thanks for the video it never occured to me that my tea bags had plastic in them but like... of course they must lmao
This is horrible
So much plastic is produced with no thought to the consequences.
I've seen another video that said even the TEABAGS that appear to just be PAPER, have PLASTIC in them!!! That person suggested buying bulk tea or cutting open the teabags and putting them in a Teaball or infuser. Course, the latter doesn't take care of the problem of plastic waste and plastic production that's toxic.
Toxins are all around us and in everything we consume. All we can really do on an individual level is not worry about it. Chronic worry is far more dangerous to your health.
🤦♂️That's NOT what he is telling us to do.
Yup
@@la381 I'm just saying is if you worry about it all the time, you'll make yourself more sick than the microplastics will.
Thank You . . .
Mmm Microplastics, my favorite addition to die faster! YAYYYY!
Can't win for losing!!!! It's so discouraging!
You forget that paper tea bags are usually 10% plastic!
We are so screwed
The water and air and land are so poisoned is it even safe to drink or eat?
No it isn't
Explains why a lot of people have mental/emotional/physical/spiritual problems. Pharmaceuticals are not going to cure any of them. We need a "value change for survival" -Oren Lyons
@@LM01234 we could get that value change. Just stop using monetary systems. Money has become a goal in and of itself instead of a side benefit of bringing something of value to the table.
As long as we keep using monetary systems our world will continue to deteriorate.
We need to switch to a resource based economy.
And the sooner we do so, the better off we will all be. For the rest of humanity's existence.
Please check out the venus project to see what a resource based economy looks like.
If thats city water there is probably microplastic in your water supply
Save the planet start the act now
Thank you soooo much I appreciate it so much god bless🇵🇷👍
Why don’t you explain how these plastics get in?
Please link to the studies and sources
So much plastic, yet human life expectancy has risen dramatically.
Conclusion: plastic is good for you.
What happens if you filter your water with a plastic filter because everything is made with plastic probably the filters????
It's crazy how no one talks about this
"5 everyday foods contain plastic"
*3 OF THEM ARE DRINKS*
Yes it's true tea bags have plastic so we can use tea infusers they are safe and also do not produce any waste and there are lot of startups who are working to reduce this as woolah tea true dip it's basically provide no packaging of tea bags and we can also have varities of tea flavour . So if anyone wants they can order this from their website.
I just want to share that I stsrted falling alseep while scrolling through CZcams, and must have clicked this video while nodding off. I had the most primal fear instinct to the slurping at the start, I thought it was a monster slurping in my ears.
Tea, salt, seafood, beer, and water
Good to know, tgx
Can you link your sources?
What about well water from 287 feet down?
Conclusion: "you're f'ed! If you wanna avoid microplastics, jump out of high window"
Seafood. Just concentrates as it goes up the food chain.
…. We’re f**ked. Thanks humanity.
Oh wow.....this just messed me up💯
how wonderful
I rinse the tea good first pour out the water then refill it 👌
I found PLASTIC in the rice I prepared for dinner. 👀
Wash the rice 3 times and you will reduce the microplastic by 60%
what tea bag was that one ?
So pretty much everything contains plastic....