Can the Use of Melamine Tableware Make Us Feel At Ease?

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Can the Use of Melamine Tableware Make Us Feel At Ease?

2025-01-20

▎When you eat out, do you find that restaurants are using more and more melamine tableware?

Yes, this tableware is indeed very common in the market, you can see it in a variety of restaurants. It is widely used in catering industry because of its light weight, beautiful appearance, low temperature resistance and non-breakable properties. In particular, many parents use it as their children's tableware, so they don't have to worry about the naughty children breaking the bowl in their hands.

What is melamine tableware

It is formed by heating and pressing melamine resin powder. Melamine resin powder is made from melamine formaldehyde resin as the raw material, cellulose as the base material, and adding pigments and other additives.

What?? Melamine?? Formaldehyde?? These two are both notorious poisons!

Yes, the raw materials are toxic, but the synthesized melamine resin is non-toxic and can be used safely.

The premise is:

Use temperature is not too high!

The high temperature will break down the melamine material into formaldehyde and melamine, and then migrate into the food, our later test report also confirmed this.

The difference between melamine materials

What is the upper limit of the operating temperature? Different grades of melamine tableware are different. According to the specific composition, it can be divided into four kinds: A1 material, A3 material, A5 material, A8 material.

The market is more A3 and A5 material, A3 material maximum use temperature is 100 degrees, and A5 can reach 120 degrees.

A1

100% urea resin

Mainly applied in tableware, electric swtich panel, toilet seat cover, wash basin

Main composition: formaldehyde, urea, paper pulp, other additive etc.

Features: Although with melamine composition, it still exist plastic characteristics.

A3

70% melamine resin

Applicable for tableware

Main composition: formaldehyde, urea, paper pulp, other additive etc.

Features: the appearance is smiliar with genuine A5 material, but once used, the product is not resistant to dirt, easy to change color, fade, easy to deform under high temperature, not resistant to corrosion.

A5

100% melamine resin

Applicable for tableware (100% Melamine)

Main composition: melamine, paper pulp, other additive.

Features: non-toxic and tasteless, temperature resistance range from -30 degrees Celsius to 120 degrees Celsius, bump-resistant, corrosion-resistant. It is with beautiful appearance also safe to use.

A8

100% melamine resin

The material of A8 tableware is also more high-grade, usually using a melamine resin containing metal elements, so that it has a better texture and luster. This tableware is very suitable for business occasions, such as restaurants, cafes, etc., can enhance the overall brand image and atmosphere.

▎ About the melamine, we want to say

The melamine powder used in the production of formal melamine tableware does contain melamine and formaldehyde, both because of the irreversible polymerization process, so the synthetic melamine formaldehyde resin is non-toxic and relatively stable, and can be used within the normal range of heating.