Eat Food Off The Floor

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.

Eat food off the floor.

My partner threw some food during a tantrum a couple of days ago it s still there as i ve had enough of picking up after him. Someone can spend an entire lifetime eating food off of the floor and never get sick and someone else might get sick the first time they do it. However not all dogs are happy about this and some may revert to their instinct to want to eat straight off the floor so they ll take a mouthful of kibble and eat it away from the bowl. He s just suggested that i should eat it.

And it s probably not a new one either. New york sep 11 ians food once dropped on the floor is not safe to eat however quickly you pick it up warns a new study that debunks the widely accepted notion that it is all right to scoop up food and eat it within a safe five second window. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience. Moisture type of surface and contact time all contribute to cross contamination.

In some instances the transfer begins in less than one second. Carpet is apparently not bad at all. Often it s a matter of not liking certain features of the food bowl. Scientists have warned anything that touches the floor is at risk of e coli or salmonella but are they right.

I m not sure if it was meant to be a joke. Suggesting i eat food off the floor 62 posts add message report. How willing are you to eat food off the floor. The five second rule is.

While very few studies exist on this topic one group of researchers did test the 5 second rule. Why eating food off the floor can be good for you. Joebelanger getty images which of these foods would you be willing to eat after. Eating food off the floor may be ok scientist says a microbiologist experiments with dropping food on various surfaces to see how much bacteria they pick up.