Choosing Non-Toxic Cookware – Why Is It Important?

When we think of our health and food we often think of the ingredients we try to avoid pesticides, additives (such as sweeteners, artificial colors) and chemicals (preservatives). How about when you purchase your cookware? Do you ask what goes into this pan? What additives or chemicals are used in its production? How does its production affect the environment? Why is it important to choose safe and non-toxic cookware? How does it affect our food?

Why should you buy non-toxic cookware? Simple, to prevent toxins from finding their way into your food. You may think well I’ve already done that by buying all natural and organic food items. Good for you but once you place your food into that nonstick, metal, glazed or enameled pan they become contaminated by the pan itself.

Not sure if you believe chemicals are leaching into your food or you just want to know it for yourself?

Here’s an easy test you can try: Boil 2 to 4 cups water in any metal, glazed, enameled, ceramic pot/pan you cook with. Add 1 TBSP of baking soda to the boiling water. After 5 to 10 minutes turn off the stove and wait for it to cool down. Take a small sip (just enough for a taste). If you experience a foul metallic taste your pot is leaching metal. If you did this in a ceramic/glazed or enamel pot and get a rubbery or paint like flavor your pan is leaching chemicals. As a control, stir the same quantity of baking soda to a glass of water and compare the taste. You will see the difference in the taste in the different pots. Now perform the same experiment with a MEC pure clay pot and taste the difference.

Non-toxic & safe cookware should not allow chemicals to seep into your food but also shouldn’t zap the nutrition out either. Conventional metal and ceramic cookware cook with a very harsh form of heat that quickly destroys the nutritive cells in food AND let all the steam evaporate letting all the water soluble nutrients leave the pot. Why buy those great organic carrots if all their water soluble vitamins and minerals will go up in a puff of steam? When cooking with pots and pans made from 100% natural material such as pure-clay the food will retain its nutritional value. How is this possible? First pure clay cooks with far infrared heat which is a gentler heat that doesn’t breakdown nutritional cells in the food you cook. Secondly, pure clay helps to naturally lock in steam keeping the nutrients in the food as well as making it moist and flavorful.

So in all, non-toxic cookware and healthy cookware go hand and hand. Cookware that is made from 100% natural renewable material that will not pollute your food, preserve the nutrients intact and doesn’t harm the environment during the manufacturing or its functioning is the best choice for non-toxic cookware.

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