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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Are you sure you aren’t tasting the added minerals?

The bottling process often adds magnesium sulfate, sodium bicarbonate, KCl, and perhaps one or two others for taste. Try distilled to compare a change in taste, but you’re likely not ingesting microplastics.

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