EKOBO | French bamboo fiber children's tableware allows you to use it with confidence

Children's health and safety have always been hot topics of discussion. In recent years, there have been many child safety incidents reported by the media, and if children's tableware is unsafe, it will be even more toxic. So how to choose healthy tableware suitable for your baby? In addition to paying attention to the appearance and size of tableware, the most important point is the material of the tableware.

---What kind of tableware material is good?

The vast majority of adult household tableware is ceramic tableware and stainless steel tableware, which are strong, heavy, and relatively monotonous in color and pattern. Naturally, using such tableware will not arouse your baby's interest in eating. Because for babies, more aspects need to be considered: What size of small bowl is suitable for the baby’s small hands? Which style of tableware will guide babies to take the initiative to eat more? How to choose between safer and more fall-resistant materials?

Based on these considerations, children's tableware of various materials has emerged, mainly including the following:

• Advantages: anti-fall, lightweight, rich in colors and styles, easy to stimulate baby's interest in eating.

• Disadvantages: Unsafe. The main component of plastic children's tableware is polyvinyl chloride, and the gas hydrogen chloride (HCL) it releases is toxic. According to relevant experts, when the temperature of the food contained in plastic tableware reaches above 60 degrees, foamed plastic tableware will Toxic substances will be released, which will cause certain damage to the human central nervous system and seriously threaten people's health. Harmful substances in plastic tableware will seep into food and cause damage to the human liver, kidneys and central nervous system.

• Not environmentally friendly: The degradation time of plastic tableware usually takes at least 200 years. Due to the soft foundation of the site where plastic tableware is landfilled, harmful substances such as bacteria and viruses in the garbage can easily seep into the ground, contaminating groundwater and endangering the surrounding environment.

• Advantages: soft texture, smooth as porcelain yet very light and thin, not afraid of falling or deforming, good thermal insulation performance, and not hot to the touch.

• Disadvantages: Unsafe, not environmentally friendly, melamine tableware is more complicated to make, so it is easy to be adulterated. Many companies use toxic urea-formaldehyde molding powder instead of melamine, a normal resin raw material, because the price difference between the two raw materials is nearly 10,000 yuan per ton.

• Advantages: easy to clean, not easy to breed bacteria, has few chemical elements, and is suitable for drinking water.

• Disadvantages: Unsightly, easy to burn, and unqualified heavy metal content can be harmful to health. Do not hold dishes with vegetable soup for a long time, because vegetable soup often contains acidic substances, which will dissolve the nickel and chromium in unqualified stainless steel tableware.

• Advantages: natural, safe, delicate and soft texture, not easy to hurt the baby, anti-fall.

• Disadvantages: Difficult to clean, easy to breed bacteria. The appearance is dull and generally not liked by babies.

• Advantages: safe and non-toxic, natural and long-lasting antibacterial, ecological and environmentally friendly, easy to clean, resistant to falling (fall resistance is between plastic and ceramic), easy to carry when going out, biodegradable and environmentally friendly. If buried underground (broken into pieces and completely covered with soil), the bamboo fiber content will decompose within 2-3 years.

• Disadvantages: It cannot be heated in a microwave oven and may be broken. There are many tableware made of bamboo fiber on the market, but their materials and ingredients are unknown, which can easily mislead consumers.

In addition to material considerations, tableware brands cannot be ignored. Because the materials of different manufacturers vary, for the safety and health of your baby, it is recommended to choose well-known brands at home and abroad.