Pregnant women should pay special attention to their diet. Some cold and spicy foods are best not to eat. Some expectant mothers have heard that bamboo charcoal powder is good for the body and want to buy some to eat. In fact, bamboo charcoal powder does not have the expected benefits, cannot contact body toxins, and has no health benefits, so pregnant women should not eat it.

Neither activated carbon nor bamboo charcoal can be absorbed by the human body, reach the blood, or even the whole body tissues.

Suppose there are indeed ‘harmful substances’ in our bodies; they are produced during cell metabolism. The path of these ‘toxins’ in the body is from cells into the blood, then to the kidneys, where they are either filtered out in the urine or returned with the blood.

In other words, ‘toxins’ have no chance to return to the digestive tract, and activated carbon must be in direct contact with the adsorbent to be effective. Therefore, for ‘harmful substances in the body’ or ‘blood toxins’, activated carbon can only play a minor role in the digestive tract; bamboo charcoal passes through the intestines, and ‘toxins’ still remain in the body.

If a food claims to have certain health benefits, it must be approved by relevant national departments. At present, the scope of functional approval for health food does not include any standards related to the adsorption of toxins in bamboo charcoal food, and even if it is a health food, it should be a specific product rather than a category of food.

Some products contain bamboo charcoal, which may be used as a component of the product formula rather than as raw material. Bamboo charcoal indeed has certain adsorption properties, but this does not mean that it can necessarily adsorb toxins in the human body and excrete them. Bamboo charcoal food is an exaggeration by merchants, and even if bamboo charcoal has this function, it has not been scientifically proven so far.