Can I Get Cancer From Eating Food Out Of Tupperware That Has Been In The Microwave?

[littlemisslolita]

Here’s The Story. I Saw My Sister Microwave Our Leftover Swedish Meatballs From Yesterday. IN THE TUPPERWARE CONTAINER WITH THE COVER ON IT. (What A Dum Dum) It Was Set To 2 Minutes I Think. I’m Worried That I Would Get Very Sick From Eating It. So I Only Ate Half Of It Then I Put The Rest Of It Back In The Bowl. IM SCARED FOR MY LIFE! PLEASE TELL ME THE TRUTH! HELP ME! 😿

[Pyrofox]

Technically you can get cancer from just about anything hell even the sun. The main idea of cancer is simply to do what will reduce the chances of it occuring. Cause the reality if you do any googling is that we all have cancer cells in all of us. Its just a matter of do they choose to turn on or not. Its best to just try and live life as stress free as possible as those who are stressed often just are low key producing just more hormones that either age other cells or accelerate the cancer cells. Cause your immune system starts to get supressed if you stress out too much.

[loveslongnails]

Your one time doing this would be the equivalent of walking into a cigarette smoke filled room and breathing deeply for 30 seconds - in other words, it will have zero effect on you. However, if you did that every day of your life, it would have a cumulative effect of some kind. You're fine. Transfer the food to a microwave safe dish, heat it up and stop fretting.

[AngelOfLight258]

Girl calm down. Heating certain kinds of plastic can release chemicals that mimic hormones linked to breast cancer BUT eating a single meal out of a tupperware container won't do it. Doing it habitually is another matter.

[Astarlessnightsky]

I don't see any problem with this, unless maybe a potential cleaning issue when the whole thing explodes as you are heating up a closed container.

[littlemisslolita]

Don’t Worry It Didn’t Explode.

[Anonymous]

From a practical standpoint, no. It isn't a great idea but the likelihood of you getting cancer, or even sick, from this single occurence is VERY slim. Like unfathomably slim. Microplastics do impact the body in negative ways but that's usually when it's in notable amounts, not a single instance.

[Debbie14217]

no you can't