Why you should use a wooden chopping board

We’ve all become more conscious of viruses since Covid, but using more wood in our lives—such as swapping the plastic chopping board for a wooden one—reduces transmission.

Wood contains natural antiviral qualities that quickly kill viruses.  Pine is the most effective, and starts killing the virus after just five minutes, researchers from the American Chemical Society have discovered.

Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the Covid-19 epidemic, can live on surfaces for up to five days, while enteroviruses that cause the common cold can survive for weeks, even if the surface has been disinfected.

The researchers tested the survival time of coronaviruses on six different woods; pine, spruce, birch and alder had the most powerful antiviral qualities and eliminated the virus within an hour, while eucalyptus and oak needed two hours.  Pine was the most effective, followed by spruce which sharply reduced the virus’s ability to infect within 10 minutes.

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