Do microwaves poison food? One
Marshall Dudley posted the results of what was supposedly a granddaughter's science project, in which the kid watered two plants (geraniums? the leaves on the clippings look different from the plantings). One sprout sipped microwaved water while the other got stove-boiled water--after it chilled, I assume. It's not a double-blind study, peer-reviewed in Nature. Yet one glance at the results are enough to make any microwave-wary folks gulp. Dudley followed up:
We have seen a number of comments on this, such as what was the water in the microwave boiled in. The thinking is that maybe some leaching took place if it was in plastic. It was boiled in a plastic cup, so this could be a possibility.
Yeah, everyone says that plastic is safe, and microwaves don't cause cancer (although popcorn bags definitely leach teflon into your munchies). But does nuking food and water make it less healthy for living things, if not deadly? Was this a case of radiation sickness or plastic poisoning, was this test too sloppy to tell, or is it a hoax?
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Posted by: grietjej | 2012.01.31 at 01:53 AM
A school science class saw this same experiment and tried to duplicate it using serious processes:
http://www.eclecticscience.net/experiments/001-microwave-plants/summary.html
The result was that the microwaved water had no effect on the growth of the plants whatsoever (as the previous poster powell_beau tested and saw as well).
While microwaves may or may not be bad, they don't appear to hurt the water if you're going to water your plants with it.
Posted by: D | 2011.12.15 at 08:31 AM
i only an 14,and i think u should do the experiment at least 4 times and with some other plants to test on,in my opinion i whould't belive something that is been tested only once and by a litlle kid............
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i just did a science experiment on this subject and microwaved watered did grow at the same speed boiled and normal water. I think what happened is that they boiled the water in plastic.
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Yes, microwave water hurts plants, and probably all living things.
It does NOT alter your DNA or any DNA (this is just plain stupid) it DOES alter the way water molecules are arranged making it more difficult for animals or plants to use efficiently.
This means that a plant fed only microwave water would not likely survive, but it would take a long time for it to die from it. It's also likely that if a person ate only microwaved food for their entire lives that they would be adversely affected by their increased inability to use water effectively assuming they did not get water from any other source. They'd probably die from the amount of preservatives in the microwaveable food first.
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