Can silicone straws be scalded with hot water?

Silicone straws

Silicone products will encounter maintenance and cleaning problems during use, so can silicone products be scalded with boiling water? Is it poisonous for silicone products to be scalded with boiling water?
First of all, the premise of knowing whether the silicone product is poisonous by boiling water is whether the silicone product is authentic silicone. If it is real silicone, then there will be no problem with boiling water. If it is fake silicone or inferior quality The silica gel is another matter, because it should not be regarded as the category of silica gel products. This editor also found that many friends on the Internet have raised such problems, and some of them also found that their own silica gel products were discolored, smelled and deformed after being scalded by boiling water. and other problems, then it is certain that the silicone products they bought are fake.
Regarding whether silicone products are poisonous when scalded with boiling water, let's take a look at the characteristics of silicone to know the answer:
1. The raw material is pure environmentally friendly silica gel: food-grade silica gel is an inorganic polymer colloidal material formed by polycondensation of silicic acid, and the main component is mSiO2-nH2O. It has good chemical stability and does not react with any acid and alkali except in the two very special cases of caustic alkali and hydrofluoric acid. It is often used in products with high safety requirements such as baby pacifiers and feeding bottles.
2. Non-toxic and tasteless: The ingredients are silicon dioxide and water, which are safe and stable.
3. High temperature resistance and low temperature resistance: The temperature resistance range of silica gel raw materials is -40℃-220℃, which is far more than that of food plastic products, and it will not dissolve at more than 100℃. The use process is safe, even when scorched, it will only decompose into silicon dioxide and water vapor, which is non-toxic and harmless.
4. Anti-aging and non-fading: the oxidative decomposition temperature is much higher than that of similar plastic products. It does not fade in daily temperature and has a lifespan of up to 10 years.
5. Easy to clean, oil-resistant, impervious to water, can be cleaned in the dishwasher, easy to use, and a good helper for housewives. It can be seen from the above content that the temperature resistance range of silica gel can reach more than 200 degrees, and the boiling water is only more than 100 degrees. Therefore, there is no problem with scalding silica gel products with boiling water.