The board does not differ significantly from brand boards, but here has a much lower price. The weeks of use has hardly left traces and I use it almost every day. Otherwise it's just a bamboo board ... that you have to live with occasional bamboo filaments which dissolve the board ... but so far I could avoid good to get this into the food. The same is happening to me but also at a much more expensive board, so I'm not from a lack of quality made.