Why does pasta turn plastic containers red?

Question

I have all these containers that are stained red from pasta. The stains are almost impossible to get off too. How can they be prevented and removed too?

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Answer 1

Its the tomatoes. They’re very acidic and can damage your plastic containers over time A good scrub with a little Dawn Platinum will usually taken any red stains out of Tupperware as long as you haven’t ever microwaved the sauce while in the plastic container. Once you nuke a tomato sauce in a plastic container though, the red stains it leaves won’t ever come out.