Dropping Food On The Floor

The first few times your baby grabs food off her high chair tray and throws it on the floor you laugh pick it up smile and say in your gentlest voice no throwing honey you might even snap a picture because it s so adorable.

Dropping food on the floor. He and his team dropped slices of bologna and bread onto floors contaminated with salmonella let them sit for varying amounts of time and recorded exactly how many bugs moved from floor to food. At least wash it first says ruth frechman ma rd spokeswoman for the american. If i drop food on the floor i still eat it. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience.

You may feel differently. Two experts tell webmd you should never eat food that s fallen on the floor. Any food picked up from the floor is perfectly fine to eat within five seconds of dropping it. It s fun for babies and toddlers to drop or throw food on the floor.

I do that because the harm i might get from the floor is not worth my concern compared with many many other things. 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 it s probably not a new one either. It may be even more exciting if there s a dog there to eat it up.

But was i right to eat it or had i unwittingly stuffed my mouth full of tiny harmful microbes. They are actually learning that they can make something happen. 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. 18 a 2016 new york times article states you may think your floors are so clean you can eat off them but a new study debunking the so called five second rule would suggest.