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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

5 Second Rule

If you live by the 5 second rule, or even the 3 second rule, you might want to reconsider. Some students studied the rule, and the results were pretty gross.

They placed salmonella on three different flooring surfaces, tile, carpet and wood. Next came the fun part, dropping food on each one. Their findings proved the bacteria was immediately present on each food, from each surface.

The same group of students tested double dipping too, and those results were downright germy, salsa was worse than cheese dip, the stickier the dip, the better, because less of it falls back into the bowl. Their next study, how much bacteria ends up on a birthday cake after blowing out the candles!

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