Which material is good for chopsticks? Remember these points

At present, the most common materials of chopsticks are bamboo, wood, metal, plastic, and lacquer chopsticks formed by painting and polishing on wooden chopsticks through complex processes. Each material has its own characteristics.

I. what kind of chopsticks is good?

1. Unpainted chopsticks
Non painted wooden chopsticks are made of natural materials, which are basically safe and harmless.

Chopsticks made of different wood have different hand feel. Among the chopsticks, we can buy now, the chopsticks with the widest popularization range, the most shapes, and the most hand feel choices

The most common chopsticks are made of chicken wing wood, red sandalwood, yellow sandalwood, ironwood, etc.

Due to the soft texture of wooden chopsticks, it is easy to produce scratches. If they are not cleaned thoroughly, they will easily hide bacteria. Therefore, they should pay more attention to cleaning and sanitation when they are used at ordinary times.

2. Chopsticks
Chopsticks are made of bamboo at the beginning. Because the surface of chopsticks is smooth and the texture is regular, it is not easy to hide bacteria. In addition, the material itself is non-toxic, harmless, healthy and safe, so the bamboo growing for about 3 years is generally used in the production.

The biggest feature of bamboo chopsticks is that they are light to start with. The same length of bamboo chopsticks is only half the weight of wooden chopsticks, but this may make some little friends feel that "there is no weight in hand"

3. Metal chopsticks
Metal chopsticks are strong, durable and clean.
But its disadvantages are obvious. First of all, it's too heavy. It's more than twice the weight of chopsticks of the same length, so it's easy to get tired.

The second is that the surface is too smooth, and it takes a lot of effort to hold food.
Finally, because of the strong thermal conductivity of metal chopsticks, it is easy to burn your mouth when eating overheated food.

Therefore, when purchasing metal chopsticks, we should pay attention to whether it is food-grade stainless steel. If not, we must not buy it.

4. Lacquer chopsticks
Lacquer chopsticks are based on chopsticks, through different painting processes, so that the chopsticks are partially or completely covered with lacquer, and form a specific pattern

Because it is wrapped by paint, it is not easy to leave bacteria on the surface of lacquer chopsticks, so it is convenient to clean.

But if the unqualified chemical coating is used on the chopsticks, once the coating falls off, the toxic substances contained in it may enter the body with the food, seriously endangering our health.

5. Plastic chopsticks
The advantage of plastic chopsticks is also that they are easy to clean and have the most color choices.

But similar to the metal material, the plastic chopsticks are heavy and smooth, which is not very comfortable to use, and the plastic material itself is not as healthy and safe as the above several kinds.

Plastic chopsticks are easy to deform and produce substances harmful to the body in case of high temperature

Therefore, it is recommended not to buy plastic chopsticks from both practical and safety perspectives.

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