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Your Early Morning - The truth behind the 5 Second Rule!!!!

───   00:00 Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Your Early Morning - The truth behind the 5 Second Rule!!!!  | News Article

Science FINALLY explains why the ‘five-second rule’ is kinda, sorta true!

Remember the Friends episode where Rachel and Chandler (and Joey) end up eating cheesecake off the floor? Well, imagine for a minute the foods you’d eat off the floor if you loved them enough.

Perhaps a cookie? A candy bar? Maybe a sandwich? There’d be at least a small list of foods you’d eat off the floor… because of that five-second rule.

You know the one. The five-second rule states that food dropped on the ground will not be contaminated with bacteria if you pick it up within five seconds.

Well, thanks to science, we now know that the five-second rule is kinda, sorta true.

A dry piece of food should be okay when dropped onto a dry floor. But when moisture is involved? Shudder.

According to the video below, dry ground is fine most of the time, but beware of moist foods dropping on the kitchen floor.

‘Moist foods left longer than 30 seconds collect ten times the bacteria than those snapped up after only three. E-coli, salmonella and listeria love wet environments. They absorb water for the nutrients they need to grow and multiply’.

Fascinating. Are you a fan of the five-second rule?

Via The Lad Bible



http://www.lostateminor.com/2016/02/11/science-finally-explains-why-the-five-second-rule-is-kinda-sorta-true/

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