Do you leave cooked food like boiled beans, rice or soup in aluminum containers in the refrigerator.?

Question

Why or why not?
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Answer 1

Use glass or plastic. Aluminum leaches out poisons into food. There are many controversial topics about Aluminum causing Alzheimer's and other diseases. I am not afraid to bake a potato with aluminum foil though.
Also FYI- Try to by products that do not contain Aluminum such as baking powder, Antacids and a few other things that you use often like deodorants..Use a brand like Tom's etc.

Answer 2

Some foods may be stored in the can in the refrigerator and partly used cans should be covered with plastic. There have been many scares over 'poisons' from metal containers seeping into food when kept in the fridge, when in fact, any reaction which can occur between the food and it's container happens whether they are in the fridge or not, and occur over a number of years, thus diminishing the nutrition and quality of the food, but are not necessarily unsafe to eat. However, there are some preserved foods which do not store well in cans, especially once opened. Highly acidic or salted foods such as fruit juices or tomato products do attack tinplate in the presence of air and they should be transferred to a glass or plastic container before refrigerating.
However, once food from a aluminium container has been cooked, it is advisable to place leftovers in a plastic container, rather than returning the foods to the aluminium one, as uncooked foods contain contaminating organisms. By returning it to the original container, you are allowing cooked food to come into contact with the organisms from the uncooked food, and therefore make it unsafe to eat. These organisms react with the air, and any container which is not sealable, or you are unable to cover, is unsuitable.

Answer 3

do NOT store the food in the tin cans it comes in once you have cooked it. you can get diseases from the interaction between the metal and the food because it is no longer vacuum sealed and all the disgusting bacteria etc. can create a high acidity atmosphere in the can which can eat through the protective laquer of the can. after the laquer is gone the tin from the can can seep into your food and give you metal poisoning. not good.

tupperware is okay though.

Answer 4

Never leave anything juicy or acidic in metal in the fridge, it will start to taste tinny. Only glass or plastic for juicy foods or acidic foods.

You also never wrap anything with an acid base in tin foil just for future reference.

Answer 5

I use plastic containers personally rather than aluminum. or washed out margarine containers, or yogurt containers to store leftovers*

Answer 6

No Aluminum has been linked with Alzehiemers disease and some other things, I forget....

Answer 7

I do. If I put it in tupperware, I'll forget what it is.

Right now, I have diced tomatoes, chipotle peppers in adobe and black olives in the cans with foil on top.

Answer 8

No. My mother always told me it would go bad if you did, so I always put leftovers into nonmetallic containers.