Kid Food Fell On Floor

You can decide if you want to eat the dirty food or not but you shouldn t tell yourself that it s somehow safe if it didn t spend 5 seconds on the floor.

Kid food fell on floor.

But fast may not be fast enough. A few days ago some friends and i discussed whether we would eat food if it fell on the floor. Rumtscho sep 3 14 at 9 52. Even food that s.

In fact it was a potato pancake and it fell on the stovetop not on the floor. The 5 second rule is just wishful thinking bacteria can attach to food as soon as it hits the floor. As someone who loves food hates wasting things and is sometimes messy this is an important question. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience.

And foods with wet surfaces like an apple slice pick up bacteria even more easily than things like a cookie. And it s probably not a new one either. 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. You re preparing supper and a delicious tomato cut slips off the cutting board and onto the kitchen floor you haven t.

We ve included clean and silly kids jokes with themes like birthday jokes pirate jokes and animal jokes. A piece of food will pick up more bacteria the longer it spends on the floor. What happens if you eat food that fell on the floor. As soon as any food touches the floor of course it will pick up dirt and therefore microbes inside that dirt says jack gilbert a microbial ecologist at the university of chicago in.

Whatever the food picks up it picks it up the moment it touches the floor. It doesn t matter if you pick it up at once after 5 seconds or after 5 minutes. Bacteria can attach to your food as soon as it hits the floor. No it s never a good idea to eat food that has been dropped.