How to choose a trick with so many misunderstandings about disposable paper cups

Disposable paper cups, in the pace of life ‘accelerated run’ today, for us has long been no longer strange. Paper cups can be found almost everywhere in many public places, with its clean and hygienic, convenient and practical in people's daily life has taken a place.

But at the same time the negative reports about disposable paper cups also abound, the most people are concerned about whether it has a carcinogenic potential; and about disposable paper cups will be discoloured in the presence of wine, so it can not hold wine, not suitable for tea and other controversies are also endless. Disposable paper cups as people's lives in the use of high-frequency household items, in the end, how should be used? And how to choose?

Disposable paper cups can not be used to drink hot water

Many people think that disposable paper cups can not hold hot water, such as tea, coffee. If you must use disposable paper cups to hold hot water, the first cup can not drink.

The reason is that the high temperature of the hot water will make the inner wall of the paper cup paraffin or bleach and other harmful substances dissolved in water, these harmful substances will enter the body with the water, with the accumulation of time will be detrimental to the health of people, and even increase the risk of cancer.

But the fact is that now the regular disposable paper cup manufacturers, are the use of wood pulp raw paper for one-sided PE film production and become. The so-called PE lamination, that is, refers to the use of polyethylene particles in the wood pulp paper to do plastic coating process for the process of lamination.

Polyethylene is very resistant to temperature and is extremely pure, containing almost no chemical additives, including plasticisers, bisphenol A and other substances. Now people use PE film disposable paper cups are cold drinks and hot drinks can be used paper cups, its safety is high, can be used to drink hot water.

Can disposable cups be used for drinking?

Once a friend poured wine into a disposable paper cup, found that the inner wall of the paper cup changed colour, the result is not only the wine did not dare to drink, and from then on the quality and safety of disposable paper cups have questioned. Disposable paper cups in the end can not be used to hold wine with it? Poured into the paper cup and why the wine will change colour?

In the production process of disposable paper cups, there is a paper cups on the outside wall of the printing, that is, we are common in the paper cups on the outside wall of the various patterns. Paper cups outside the pattern printing, raw materials are mostly used in environmentally friendly ethanol ink, so it will happen when encountering alcohol colour loss.

In addition, some wine because of the high purity of alcohol, will also be on the outside of the paper cup ink physical dissolution, which will also lead to the wine held in the paper cup discolouration. Alcohol volatile, permeability is also strong, so the use of disposable paper cups filled with alcohol is also prone to cause side leakage of paper cups, the longer the wine, the more side leakage, it is recommended that we drink alcoholic beverages, try not to use disposable paper cups as utensils.

In fact, in the national production of paper cups to make the provisions of the standard, there are also related to ‘shall not contain alcoholic beverages’ tips, but few people pay attention to it.

Careful selection, appropriate use

Look: paper cups with our daily food, its packaging should have the appropriate logo information. In the choice of paper cups, the first thing to look at the packaging information is complete. Also look at the colour of the whole cup, try to avoid too white or colourful paper cups.

Smell: the printing ink on the outer wall of the disposable paper cups, the national legal regulations within the scope of the odour is not allowed. So if you can smell the ink on the cup before buying or any other pungent flavour, do not buy.

Pinch: the better quality paper cups and poor quality paper cups in the hands, respectively, good quality paper cups than poor quality paper cups to be hard and elastic. Before buying paper cups, you can gently pinch test paper cups, try to pick the thicker texture of the cup.