Bottled water often has a slight plastic taste. Does this mean I am ingesting microscopic plastic particles?

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Bottled water often has a slight plastic taste. Does this mean I am ingesting microscopic plastic particles?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I had a bad tasting batch of Costco bottled water and was told its part of the filtering process – Every bottled water has that particular plastic taste but usually they let the bottled waters sit for some time and the taste goes away but with the pandemic for some time they were shipping as soon as they bottled it.
so no, its not plastic you are tasting but something during the filtering/mineral adding process.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The main thing is, you don’t like the taste. Weather something is safe or not can change like the weather.

Get a good single walled stainless steel water bottle, you wont have issues again. Nalgene / Clean Canteen both make great products.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Microplastic is basically everywhere now, there is literally no avoiding it, so it doesn’t really matter

Anonymous 0 Comments

Bottled water likely does not contain microplastics as others are saying.

What you are tasting is likely additives in the plastic leeching out. Additives for food-contacting plastics are usually non-toxic

Source: i injection mold for a living

Anonymous 0 Comments

I don’t know why nobody brought up the plasticizers. Basically plastic by nature is a hard brittle substance combined with a soft tough one. These plasticizers like bisphenol-a (BPA) make the plastic flexible. They also have an estrogenic effect in the body and disrupt the endocrine system. There was a big stink a few years ago and bpa was removed from many things and replaced with other placticizers which also have the same effect on the body but have the advantage of being able to be sold with tags that say BPA free. BPA was singled out because of its common usage. So the best way to avoid it is…I guess time machine?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes, the taste of plastic probably means you are ingesting them; yes they are bad for you (although more research is needed as to how bad).

Frankly I am stunned that any commenter would suggest otherwise.

https://time.com/5581326/plastic-particles-in-bottled-water/

Anonymous 0 Comments

Don’t worry about the microplastics you are ingesting. Also, do not worry about the microplastics you are breathing in.
https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-now-spiralling-around-the-globe-in-the-air-we-breathe

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes. But not from the plastic bottle. From all the other plastics we’ve let contaminate our environment. But that doesn’t affect the taste. Like another post mentioned, probably chemicals from the bottle that affects the taste