Can You Eat Food From The Floor

You can t stop it.

Can you eat food from the floor.

Even food that s picked up quickly can be contaminated. Yet people will freak out of. Not to mention there are also some foods that may be safer to eat after being dropped. Carpet is apparently not bad at all.

A microbiologist experiments with dropping food on various surfaces to see how much bacteria they pick up. According to germ expert professor anthony hilton from aston university food dropped on the floor is okay to eat provided it is picked up promptly suggesting the five second rule is a real. Occasionally eating food that was briefly on the floor is not likely to make you sick. Have you ever seen in your life a baby or toddler.

Turns out fallen food does pick up germs immediately upon making contact with the floor and the amount of bacteria transferred can be enough to make you sick according to paul dawson phd a food. From a food safety standpoint if you have. Some 56 per cent think it is acceptable to eat food from their own kitchen floor and 17 per cent off other people s floors. But it depends on what you drop and where.

And foods with wet surfaces like an apple slice pick up bacteria even more easily than things like a cookie. Eating food off the floor may be ok scientist says. There are as can be expected varying opinions on the safety of eating food off the floor. They also reported that 87 of people asked either would eat or have eaten food dropped on the floor.

There s a big difference between picking up a cracker from a just cleaned dry kitchen floor probably safe versus the floor near the cat litter box not. No it s never a good idea to eat food that has been dropped. They pick up toys of the floor and put them into their mouth. They crawl and play on the floor a they put toys in their mouth.

A fifth adopts the five second rule with 2 per cent applying it to. As national geographic has pointed out the five second rule legendary on the playground this rule suggests that food is safe to eat as long as it spends no more than five seconds on the floor is basically bunk.