The gesture is often machinal: by opening your yogurt, many of you licked the excess cream that is on the seamless. According to a Swiss survey, we would thus be 62 % not to lose a crumb (and to give a quick stroke of the tongue) and only 13 % never to do it. But is it “safe” to lick this plastic or aluminum pieces?
Is licking aluminum very reasonable?
On the regulatory level, nothing crazy is to be declared. The yogurt (plastic or aluminum) lodges are designed in accordance with regulation (EU) n ° 10/2011, limiting substances to food migration. The contact of the language being brief, the experts consider exposure significantly lower than that linked to the food which remained in the ultimate in contact with the seamlessness.
Questioned by the 20 minutes Swiss In 2022, Steffi Schluechter, nutritionist at the Swiss Nutrition Society also recalled that “most of the aluminum we absorb is eliminated by the kidneys “ and that no harmful effect was observed in current food conditions. ANSES confirms that only high chronic exposure cases have caused neurological or bone problems. Nothing to do with this gourmet parenthesis.
(Low) risks that you do not think
On the other hand, the rehearsal reflex can expose you to other (light) risks. An outside aluminum for example, it is likely that you ingest for example … glue, used to stick the layers of your yogurt jar. This is also the case of certain additives contained in the films – substances that are better to avoid, even in small quantities.
Finally, there remains a slightly more accidental mechanical risk, we will say. By licking the outburst in a hurry, you sometimes risk a cut on the language, the film being relatively fine. A sometimes painful little injury reminiscent that gluttony and prudence do not always go hand in hand.