It is good to eat with sterling silver chopsticks.

When eating with silver chopsticks, the silver elements in the silver chopsticks and water contact, there will be a trace of silver elements into the water, forming silver ions. Silver ions and silver-containing compounds can adsorb bacteria in the water, kill or inhibit bacteria, viruses, algae and fungi, and play a sterilization effect.

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Silver chopsticks from the Tang Dynasty, favored for thousands of years, in addition to the durability, color and beauty, mainly because of the folk believe that it can prevent poisoning. When some royalty, corrupt officials, for fear that someone in the food poisoning, have to use silver chopsticks, just in case.

In Dream of the Red Chamber, Sister Feng has experience in this area, she changed to Liu Lou Lou a pair of silver chopsticks, said: "dishes to be poisonous, this silver chopsticks down on the test out." Until now, the mention of silver chopsticks, older people will say: "silver chopsticks are good, can prevent poison."

In fact, the silver mold to measure poison is not reliable. Only when exposed to arsenic, naphthalene, potassium cyanide and other sulfides, silver chopsticks will lose their luster and blackened to show that the poison.

Such as contact with eggs, rotten curd, pickles, egg yolks, etc., silver chopsticks will also turn black. Tetrodotoxin, poison meat poison, sprouted potatoes (taro) in the lobelia poison, spoiled greens in the nitrate, etc., because it does not produce sulfide, even if the silver mold inserted for a long time will not be black. Therefore, it is unscientific to say that silver chopsticks can detect poison.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Sterling Silver Cutlery