Real Containers for Real Food

When you’re passionate about choosing and preparing healthy, real food for your family, making informed choices about how you store it is a natural next step. Plastic is a common go-to—but when you think about it, not really aligned with the care you put into providing healthy food for your family.

There are plenty of good reasons to use glass to store your amazing real food creations. Here are just three:

  1. Food stored in glass tastes like it’s supposed to:Store food in glass so it won't be altered by the flavors of previously stored food or stale refrigerator smells. Glass is non-porous and difficult to scratch (reducing the risk of trapped food particles) and there is no plastic-y taste competing with the great flavor of your food.
  2. Glass keeps freshness in, moisture out: Air and moisture can significantly alter the flavor, texture, and freshness of dry foods. Containers with a band of silicone or natural rubber create a tight seal and prevent clumps from forming in dry goods and keep crispy foods from going stale. In the refrigerator and freezer, using air-tight containers helps preserve the quality of the food and protect it from moisture induced freezer burn.
  3. No yucky chemicals to contaminate your food: Glass is a natural material. It's impermeable, non-porous, and above all, real (like the food you put into it). Conversely, plastic containers are made with chemicals like BPA and PVC (phthalates) to make them both hard and soft. Plastic degrades over time, releasing these chemicals into your pure, carefully prepared food. Unlike plastic, glass can take the heat; not only in the oven and microwave, but also the hot cycle of your dishwasher, which makes it particularly easy to sanitize.

Take a simple first step toward better tasting food and mightier food storage by pledging to swap out a plastic container for glass.