Do You Eat Moi Moi? If So, Check These Out Before Is Too Late

In days of old, beans pudding also known as moi moi used to be prepared in leaves. Leaves are organic, natural and harmless. They even give a nice flavour to the beans pudding when cooked. But today in most places, they are prepared in plastic containers and people still gobble it up, oblivious of the inherent dangers of this modern practice. Plastics are hydrocarbon. To explain what this means to the lay man, plastics are gotten from crude-oil; just like your petrol, diesel and engine oil. When plastics are heated, they release chemicals and these chemicals get into the food that the plastics are used to cook like the beans pudding, moi moi for example. Most of these plastics contain a chemical known as Bisphenol A also known as BPA.

When you heat the plastics- as with any stable chemical composition, it becomes unstable and releases these chemicals. As a rule, DO NOT heat any plastic container with food in it or cause it to become hot e.g by leaving it in the sun. So, as a precaution know these: When you want to warm food you kept in plastic in the freezer, put the food in a ceramic bowl, pot or pan before warming it- and that includes the quick warming we do by putting water in a pot and warming the food inside the container that was used to freeze it.