Is the Five-Second Rule Real?
Oops! You drop your precious midnight snack on the floor! You just picked it up really quick, like less than five seconds, so it is ok to eat, right? But is the 5-second rule really legit?...
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We’ve all been there – you went to the kitchen, got a snack, and you’re headed back to the couch when one of your precious nachos slides off the plate and onto the floor. But, you’re quick! And you pick it up after only a second or two. As long as it hasn’t been more than five seconds, it’s still good to eat, right? Well… not really. The idea that bacteria will wait five whole seconds to climb onto your fallen food – the so-called five-second rule – is totally made-up. It turns out that what food you dropped and /where/ you dropped it matters more to bacteria than how long it was sitting on the ground. What we know about the five-second rule comes most recently from a pair of food microbiologists at Rutgers University, who were fed up with...
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We’ve all been there – you went to the kitchen, got a snack, and you’re headed back to the couch when one of your precious nachos slides off the plate and onto the floor. But, you’re quick! And you pick it up after only a second or two. As long as it hasn’t been more than five seconds, it’s still good to eat, right? Well… not really. The idea that bacteria will wait five whole seconds to climb onto your fallen food – the so-called five-second rule – is totally made-up. It turns out that what food you dropped and /where/ you dropped it matters more to bacteria than how long it was sitting on the ground. What we know about the five-second rule comes most recently from a pair of food microbiologists at Rutgers University, who were fed up with...
