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4 foods that have surprising amounts of microplastics

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March 6, 2026

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There’s a lot still unknown about what exactly microplastics can do to our bodies in the long-term — and a lot of reasonable concern about our everyday exposures.

To help answer some of the many questions you’ve asked, Dr. Trisha Pasricha — a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and The Washington Post’s Ask a Doctor columnist — breaks down four foods that researchers have found to contain more microplastics than you might think.

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