Can't you use a metal spoon for honey?

People usually make honey water to drink. Here we would like to remind everyone that you should not use metal containers to make honey water. It is best to choose glass or ceramic containers. It is reported that if you use metal containers to make honey water, some toxic substances will be produced, which will be harmful to gastrointestinal health and may even cause food poisoning in severe cases. At the same time, it is best not to use a metal spoon to scoop honey.

Can't you use a metal spoon for honey?

Many people like to use metal cutlery when eating. An exquisite metal spoon may greatly improve the eating experience. Some experts say that metal cutlery itself has a smell. Have you felt it? Some people also say that you cannot use a metal spoon to eat yogurt or honey because they are weakly acidic foods. When a metal spoon comes into contact with them, it will easily destroy the nutrients and change the taste of the food. Is there any scientific basis for these claims?

Does using a metal spoon to eat yogurt and honey destroy the nutrition?

Experts say: No

Miss Zhang has also been feeling very conflicted about metal spoons recently. She said that she has the habit of eating honey and has always used a metal spoon to eat it. But recently she suddenly saw on the Internet that metal spoons should not be used to drink yogurt and eat honey, because these two weakly acidic foods will react chemically with metal spoons, causing the nutritional components of the food to be destroyed to varying degrees, affecting the taste. They should be eaten with non-toxic plastic spoons, wooden spoons, glass spoons, ceramic spoons or other non-metal spoons.

In this regard, Yang Yi said that this statement is completely groundless. The properties of metal tableware itself are basically stable. Even if yogurt, honey, etc. are weakly acidic, their acidity is not enough to resolve the metal substances in the tableware. What's more, when eating yogurt and honey, the contact time between the metal spoon and food is so short that there will be no problem.

Of course, there are certain taboos in the use of metal containers. For example, fruit juice, vinegar and wine cannot be stored in metal containers for a long time, because their acidity may indeed decompose metal substances over a relatively long period of time.

Weak acidity of honey

In addition to a large amount of sugar, honey also contains a variety of acids, mainly organic acids, so honey is weakly acidic, and acids will react chemically with metals. We have learned this in junior high school chemistry. For example, acid and iron will undergo a replacement reaction to produce hydrogen and iron acidic compounds, so if honey is stored in a metal container, the honey is likely to be contaminated by metal.

This is the reason why no one generally uses metal containers to store honey during the production, transportation and storage of honey. The same reason applies to metal spoons, but unlike metal containers, the spoon is in contact with honey for a very short time, so there is no problem using a metal spoon to take a spoonful of honey and eat it. Do not leave the spoon in honey for a long time. It is best to use a wooden spoon to take honey.