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The 'Snackle Box' Food Trend Is a Great Reminder to Use Food Grade Plastic

Food trends on the internet are always delightfully unhinged.


Food trends on the internet are always delightfully unhinged. We all lived through the butter boards craze, the tinned fish trend, but a new food prep obsession is going all out on aesthetics without considering food safety – the snackle box.


The general idea is to take a fisherman's tackle box which is usually filled with bait and hooks, and fill it with delicious snacks instead. Sounds great, huh? 


Some snackle boxes are just charcuterie boards on the go with soft cheeses, fruits, and meats. Some are filled to the brim with candy. Pinterest and TikTok are packed with posts of people making snackle boxes. 



Though many online, including @raventbrunner, have opposed the trend because of food safety reasons. Tackle boxes are made for fisherman’s bait, not your assortment of salami, brie, and grapes roasting in the sun. They’re not made of food-safe plastic.


Influencers could be poising themselves for the sake of cute mobile snacking.




“People do all kinds of food things in weird containers because people don't understand that plastic can leach chemicals into your food,” tweets @kendrawrites, a climate reporter.


There is truth to this. While some plastic containers are listed as food grade, that does not necessarily mean that it is food safe. Contact with heat will leak chemicals into food.



Using containers not made for food is generally not a good idea. Leave the bait box for the fishermen and use a bento box as god intended!


My body may be mostly microplastics at this point (I love my microwave) but I’m not inviting more just because I needed carrots and hummus to be portable.


Snackle is a great name, though. The influencers hit a home run there. 

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