Convenience almost always comes at a cost. 🍅🥫

You’re going to want to remove these from your pantry and avoid buying food that comes in cans. The only reason to have canned food is for emergencies like natural disasters.

The cost of a can’s convenience for everyday use is the exposure to environmental chemicals.

In order to prevent the food (or drink!) in cans from eating away at the metal and exposing it to bacteria, and or making the drink taste metallic, cans are lined with a material. These chemical liners could be BPA, acrylic (some with polystyrene), polyester, non-BPA epoxies like BPF or BPS, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) copolymers, or olefin polymers. They may also include trace formaldehyde from the processes. Some of these chemicals are estrogen-mimicking / endocrine disrupting, some are carcinogenic. 🙅🏼‍♀️

If you find that you eat and drink out of cans often, it might be worthwhile to see if/how you can cut back a little.

BPA and BPA's close chemical cousins BPF and BPF are very commonly used. Theres now strong scientific studies that show BPA readily migrates from cans into food and that even very small levels are harmful to our health. BPA is an endocrine disruptor— linked to infertility, obesity, diabetes and ADHD, just to name a few. The effects on neurological, cardiovascular, reproductive, endocrine and other biological systems are significant and scientists are only recently uncovering the wide range of health effects.

Certain cans no longer contain BPA in the linings and market that they are "BPA-free!". This is great that they realized how dangerous it is, but unfortunately the replacement chemicals used in the linings are toxic in similar and different ways - some of which being/containing known carcinogens. And this also means that the cans we all grew up eating out of DID have BPA it was just before it was understood that BPA is an endocrine disruptor.

It is difficult to navigate as a consumer so we advise that you er on the safe side and choose food that comes in glass instead and cook food from scratch vs. buying it in a can.

Once you make beans on the stove top a few times, you don’t even have to think about it anymore - its very easy and it turns out to be cheaper.

When it comes to soup - unfortunately (or fortunately imo) you have to just make your own. This is better also because then you can control what goes into it and you don't need to eat weird stuff like preservatives and artificial flavors.

For tomatoes, I’ve been able to find diced and crushed in glass jars. The name of the brand is Jovial and I purchase them on Thrive Market, an online grocery shipping company. Here's a link if you want to check it out:

Another canned good that is popular is tuna which might be worth avoiding anyway because of the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in this large fish.

What else comes in a can? Spam? You don’t need to eat spam.

#health#healthy#nontoxic#nowyouknow

Check out our blog here for all of the sources we reviewed before making this video:

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