Saturday Fun - The "5 Second Rule" Decision Tree

"The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree" by Audrey Fukuman and Andy Wright. Check it out here.

There's a further, rather disturbing study that goes with this. Researchers in Conneticut tested the 5 second rule with apples and Skittles, dropping them both on the floor for different lengths of time. What they found was this:

"No bacteria were present on the foods that had remained on the floor for five, 10 or 30 seconds. The apple slices did pick up bacteria after one minute, however, and the Skittles showed a bacterial presence after remaining on the floor for five minutes."

"The results prove, according Goettsche and Moin, that you can wait at least 30 seconds to pick up wet foods and more than a minute to pick up dry foods before they become contaminated with bacteria."

Sorry, study or not, it's still gross.

Read the article here.

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