Tips on how to choose one with so many misconceptions about disposable paper cups

Tips on how to choose one with so many misconceptions about disposable paper cups

Disposable paper cups, in the rhythm 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 a place.

But at the same time, negative reports about disposable paper cups also abound, most people are concerned about whether it is carcinogenic; and about disposable paper cups in the presence of wine will change colour, and therefore can not hold wine, not suitable for tea and other controversies are also endless. Disposable paper cups as a high frequency of use in people's lives in the household goods, in the end how to use it? And how to choose?

Disposable paper cups can not be used to drink hot water.

Many people think that disposable paper cups can't hold hot water, such as tea and coffee. If you must use disposable paper cups to hold hot water, the first cup should not be drunk.

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

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

Polyethylene is very temperature resistant and extremely pure, containing virtually no chemical additives, including plasticisers, bisphenol a and other substances. Nowadays, people use pe film disposable paper cups are paper cups that can be used for both cold and hot drinks.

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 discoloured, the result is not only the wine dare not drink, and from then on the quality and safety of disposable paper cups have questioned. Can disposable paper cups be used to hold wine or not? Pour into the paper cup of wine why will discolouration?

In the production process of disposable paper cups, there is a kind of printing on the outside of paper cups, that is, we commonly see various patterns on the outside of paper cups. Most of the raw materials used for the printing of patterns on the outside of paper cups are environmentally friendly ethanol inks, so colour loss will occur when encountering alcohol.

In addition, some wines, due to the high purity of alcohol, will also physically dissolve the ink on the outside of the paper cup, which will also lead to discolouration of the wine inside the paper cup. Alcohol is volatile, permeability is also strong, so the use of disposable paper cups filled with alcohol is also easy 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 tableware.

In fact, in the national production standards for paper cups in the provisions of the relevant ‘shall not contain alcoholic beverages’ tips, but few people pay attention to it.

Choose carefully and use appropriately

Look: Paper cups and our daily food, its packaging should have the appropriate logo information. When choosing a paper cup, the first thing to look for is whether the packaging information is complete. Also look at the colour of the whole cup and try to avoid paper cups that are too white or colourful.

Odour: Printing ink on the outside of disposable paper cups is not permitted within the odour limits set by national law. Therefore, if you can smell the ink or any other pungent odour on the cup before you buy it, do not buy it.

Pinch: Put a better quality paper cup and a lower quality paper cup in your hands separately. A better quality paper cup is harder and more flexible than a lower quality paper cup. Before buying a paper cup, gently pinch the test cup and try to pick one with a thicker texture.