3 Second Rule Food On The Floor

This rule is not applicable in a gas station restroom that s just wrong.

3 second rule food on the floor.

If you try to put it in your mouth at any point past 3 01 seconds you re a dirty bastard and will probably die from gangrene of the mouth. But another study champions the zero second rule of bacterial contact. We all know that rule right. Many of us might have picked up a piece of dropped food from the floor given it a quick blow and assumed it was still safe to eat.

As a food microbiologist i have always been amazed at people s belief in the three or five second rule. Bread with jam cooked pasta ham a plain biscuit and dried fruit were all dropped on the floor and left for either three five or 10 seconds then examined under the microscope. Any food picked up from the floor is perfectly fine to eat within five seconds of dropping it. If you drop the twinkie on the floor of your apartment and pick it up with 3 seconds it s still good.

It goes something like this. The first rule of human food consumtion. It s harder to pin down the origins of the oft quoted five second rule but a 2003 study reported that 70 of women and 56 of men surveyed were familiar with the five second rule and that women. The five second rule was therefore in my favour obviously.

5 second rule rules sometimes. Whether you work in a kitchen have kids or just have a habit of dropping food on the floor there s a good chance you already know what it means when someone mentions the 5 second rule. To many of us it is second nature to apply the age old pseudo scientific three second rule on such occasions telling ourselves we re safe if the food hit the floor only momentarily. It is second nature to apply the age old pseudo scientific three second rule on such occasions telling ourselves we re safe if the food hit the floor only momentarily.

Five food items were tested by manchester metropolitan university mmu to see whether the x second rule could be trusted.