MCT Coffee and Styrofoam cups

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#1

Do you know that MCT oil will dissolve a Styrofoam cup?
I usually drink coffee rather quickly but have noticed that the top area of the cup always looked strange. Then today, I lingered a bit longer and the cup cracked on the one side. The cup was melting away.

Others on the Internet also indicate that coconut oil will do the same thing. I haven’t tried this yet. The MCT part of coconut oil is rather low, so it might take a lot longer to start eating the cup. I’ve known people to sip a cup of coffee for hours.

I wonder if the Styrofoam is actually going into the MCT oil, or if the MCT is just messing up the foam structure. Meaning, is this just a structural issue with the cup or am I actually ingesting the polystyrene.

I’ll be switching to the ceramic mug or stainless travel mug from now on. That would be a car disaster!

#2

Wow, that could be a cup disinter as well as potential disaster pants from the outside in as well as inside out. Boy, this MCT oil is potentially messy stuff indeed :wink:

(Thao Le) #3

I made a mistake and microwave coconut oil + butter + coffee in a glass cup, as soon I took it out I place the hand frother in that cup, the hot liquid jumping out of my cup, I think it is too hot. Thank god I was fast enough to throw the whole thing the on the floor, didn’t get burn.

#4

This is why I avoid the use of plastics, synthetics, etc, with cooking and eating. Especially when there are fats involved, because those fats act as diluents, with potential to dissolve synthetics.

(Michelle) #5

Wow, haven’t heard of this before! interesting unintended experiment I suppose!

(Brian) #6

Thanks for the info on styro cups and MCT oil. I usually sip on my coffe over several hours which has 4 TBS MCT oil in coffee with Kerry Gold butter in a 32 ounce recyled Dunkin Donut plastic cup (my daughter is a Dunkin Donut fan) but occasionally she drops off a styro cup which I usually pitch but at a conference I could easily grab a styro cup to make my multiple meal replacement MCT oil coffee with no idea of what kind of an embarrassing mess it might make when it decided to disintegrate over a vender’s display, or all over me and the people sitting next to me in a lecture. THANKS FOR SAVING ME THE RISK OF THAT EMBARRASSMENT!

(John) #7

I posted this a while back, got quite the hot surprise.

#8

It would appear so, this happened to my friend the other day when he put MCT into coffee and drank it in his car…

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(Brian) #9

Do you know if this happens the powered MCT oil as well, as that is my choice to travel with and would go in what ever type cup my coffee is served in. I use the liquid MCT around home and short trips in car where I leave from home with a coffee to sip on and will choose to avoid styro from here on out but carry the powered for travel and meals away from home.

I carry a couple of little plastic bags of MCT oil powered in my billfold. Last time I was at a restaurant I pulled them out for my coffee. One of the bags seamed to have deteriorated. just assumed I had used a cheap bag and didn’t think about it again until I was half way though typing first part of this post.

#10

Yes! It does. I carry around with me PerfectKeto brand MCT oil powder and have been on a Dunkin’ kick lately. Every time I mix in the powder, I notice the cup begins deteriorating only at the “coffee line” (where the top of the liquid stops and the coffee starts). The powder usually doesn’t disolve very well in the hot liquids and as a result amasses at the top for a while until it eventually dissipates. It was only today, after experiencing varying degrees of “break down” with my Styrofoam cups and assessing the cups to see this interesting deterioration only at the ‘coffee line’ i decided to look further into it. Today, where the coffee line deterioration generally occurs, it actually completely dissolved the cup to the point where, when I tried pressing the lid on (thinking the coffee was leaking because I incorrectly replaced the lid) the whole portion of the top above the coffee line literally broke off. When I asked for a replacement cup and began pouring the coffee back into the new cup, the top portion of the "old’ cup that had detached from the bottom part of the cup had liquid looking strings that stretched between the two pieces–it was as if the Styrofoam had liquefied and resembled chewed gum being pulled between the two parts. After months of adding MCT oil powder to my Styrofoam Dunkin’ Donuts cups, I’m wondering just how much toxic material I’ve ingested… but the minute I found this forum, as particularly this comment, I wanted to post my experience. Although I won’t be mixing the two any longer, I do wonder whether I’ve been ingesting the dissolved/broken down Styrofoam all this time, or, whether, as a prior poster asked, whether the Styrofoam’s “shape” is just changing as a result of the powder. I wish I’d taken a picture!

(Paul Bloom) #11

I am not sure of the difference but I was a hazmat tech in navy and the differemt epoxys that we used were heat generators and as there might be a chemical reaction goimg on and I AM goimg to experiment a little but Styrofoam and other cops like the leaf plant based one also do the same thing with a little heat. The Styrofoam cups would degenerate so there might be some remnants of the breakdown or process to make the MCT. Oil I am goinf to see if same thinf happens with BPC brain octain oil. Great information .
I want to see if any one had problems with BAI. Coconut flavor give s me likely; disaster pants if same experience maybe is it the sugar in it.

(Jeannie Oliver) #12

I once was hired to write patient education materials for a doctor who specialized in environmental medicine–that’s a physician to treats illnesses caused by pollution. He was so convinced that Styrofoam leaches toxins into food that he always carried his own plate to the hospital cafeteria. Since then, I refuse any beverage served in Styrofoam, hot or cold.

By the way, I have also seen Styrofoam cups dissolved by wine.

(Carmen ) #13

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This happened from adding MTC oil and I stopped at another circle k for a new cup and it did it again. Soooo I bought a hydro flask and the rubbery part that closes the lid disintegrated today… Urgh what is it doing to my insides?

(Carl Keller) #14

All oil (fish oil, olive oil, canola oil, etc.) will dissolve Styrofoam with enough time. Some types of fish oil will dissolve Styrofoam very fast. Others do it much slower. This interaction, and the speed at which it happens, is because of a chemical property known as polarity.

(Daniel Franco) #15

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I have used powdered MCT oil before the slim fast version. And I have never had this happen with the powder. Today I only had liquid MCT and it disintegrated through three cups.

(Miss Trina) #16

This happened to me the first day of Keto I burned my hand and went through two cups. After I lost my coffee I kept the cup in the car several days later and the cup continued to melt away. I was so stunned.

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(Kelly Silverman) #17

So I’m assuming I got a good quality MCT oil if the lyric acid was strong enough to burn through the styrofoam huh :thinking:

(Carl Keller) #18

Indeed. Don’t blame the cup or the oil, blame the chemistry. :wink:

(Andrew) #19

I should have looked this up sooner. I guess it’s silly for me to think that the styrofoam doesn’t melt into the liquid and into my body…