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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 15:41:45 GMT
www.bbc.com/news/health-36823404"Wash salad or get sick" Seriously, when would you *NOT* wash a salad? Or fruit. Or anything else that you bought from somewhere and then intended to eat uncooked and unprepared?
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Post by Hofmeister on Jul 18, 2016 16:52:34 GMT
With pre packed salad from, say, Waitrose, we dont wash. From the farm shop or market we wash. We do tho, in the uk tend to be overprotective, and a result is that we are not developing natural immunity or good actiive bugs in our bellies.
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Post by Humph on Jul 18, 2016 16:54:40 GMT
Just deep fry everything Y'ken...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 21:13:30 GMT
Friend of mine, his mother died from salmonella poisoning of beansprouts. Uncooked raw beansprouts are dangerous and have to be washed in chlorinated water apparently. The caterer who served the meal was sued as was the supplier.
Thereafter we wash all salad leaves.
However my father recalls a TV programme from the 1990s called 'Eat Dirt'. Essentially it said that the more grime and bugs you are exposed to the less likely you are to suffer allergies or bacterial type illnesses. Another good way to gain this immunity is to live around animals. A dog is a good way to avoid asthma.
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Post by WDB on Jul 19, 2016 5:42:16 GMT
A run under the cold tap isn't going to make infected beansprouts - or infected anything - safe to eat raw. It's more likely just to distribute a bacteria-laden aerosol around your sink and food preparation area, hence the recent (and overdue) withdrawal of the advice to wash a chicken before roasting it.
The thing with beansprouts is that the bacteria are present in small, non-hazardous quantities, but will multiply if the sprouts are kept too long, too moist or at too high a temperature. That, I imagine, was the caterer's error.
Back to salad: I'll wipe leaves from a whole lettuce clean with a damp paper towel, but I'm aiming to remove residual soil and grit rather than telling myself I'm counteracting a major food hazard. Running it under the tap just means eating wet lettuce.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 6:34:24 GMT
Typically the problem here would be such things as fruit being walked on by a lot of flies.
Surely washing an apple makes sense, no? I get that its not sterilising anything, but the footprints of a fly recently back from a family picnic on dogshit must be worth a bit of washing?
Or have I been wasting my time all these years?
Salad gets a thorough washing and then gets spun. So its not covered in dirt and it's not wet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 17:52:32 GMT
Typically the problem here would be such things as fruit being walked on by a lot of flies. Surely washing an apple makes sense, no? I get that its not sterilising anything, but the footprints of a fly recently back from a family picnic on dogshit must be worth a bit of washing? Or have I been wasting my time all these years? Salad gets a thorough washing and then gets spun. So its not covered in dirt and it's not wet. No not wasting your time. There are other things on apples (Alar?) that need washing off. Its all a matter of common sense. No-one would really consider eating dirt, but there are times when a little 'flexibility' does more good than harm. |
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Post by WDB on Jul 19, 2016 18:47:58 GMT
And I still suggest that most people's idea of a 'wash' will shift neither fly footprints nor pesticide residues. A certain amount of wiping, or even scrubbing, will be necessary to separate the harmful stuff from the food.
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Post by Hofmeister on Jul 19, 2016 18:54:33 GMT
Typically the problem here would be such things as fruit being walked on by a lot of flies. Surely washing an apple makes sense, no? I get that its not sterilising anything, but the footprints of a fly recently back from a family picnic on dogshit must be worth a bit of washing? Or have I been wasting my time all these years? Salad gets a thorough washing and then gets spun. So its not covered in dirt and it's not wet. No not wasting your time. There are other things on apples (Alar?) that need washing off. Its all a matter of common sense. No-one would really consider eating dirt, but there are times when a little 'flexibility' does more good than harm. I have never washed an apple. At home, or most of Europe. I rarely suffer from stomach upsets anywhere in the world. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 19, 2016 18:57:10 GMT
I polish apples on my clothes. Shiny apples taste better.
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