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Healthy Foods Linked to Microplastics

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12 'healthy' foods full of microplastics... and swaps to avoid them

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Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic less than five millimeters long, or smaller than a pencil eraser.

They can be found in almost everything, including our air, water, soil and food we eat.

Certain foods contain higher amounts of microplastics than others, typically because they are highly processed, stored in plastic containers or because the environment they're sourced from is highly contaminated.

Carrots, apples and salads all made the list, even though these are considered healthy foods.

People who eat large amounts of shellfish ingest about 11,000 microplastic particles each year .

Pink Himalayan sea salt is especially high in microplastics because it is unrefined and because of the mining methods used to extract it.

Highly processed American table salt is the safest option when it comes to avoiding contamination.

Organic milk, cheese and yoghurt at the store should be bought locally-sourced.

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