Green salad in a plastic bag can be the most dangerous food in your refrigerator
16. May 2025 at 18:20
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Eat as a dinosaur. Take a full handful of green leaf salad or spinach directly from the plastic bag and put it in your mouth. Rumnage and pretend to enjoy it as herbal -eating lizards.
The challenge, which is currently among the trends on the social network, at first glance looks like one of those completely harmless. According to experts, the effort to include more green foods is a welcome step, for example, several studies suggest that their daily consumption can prevent a cognitive decline at an older age.
However, if you rely on the fact that a pre -washed salad that you buy in the store and eats it directly from a plastic bag, it only brings benefits, reality may surprise you unpleasant.
The prewashed vegetables packed in pockets may contain harmful bacteria, which multiply in a humid environment quickly multiply.
« Leafy vegetables are among the most risky types of food from the microbiological point of view, so the operators with leafy vegetables are most often planned, » says Anna Zapracká from the Department of Food Control of the State Veterinary and Food Administration.
A false sense of security
Leafy vegetables are often associated with the outbreak of various diseases. Escherichia coli, listeria or salmonella, which can reach several places of the supply chain – from contaminated irrigation water near cattle farms to unhygienic processing facilities, are mainly guilty of Escherichia coli, listeria or salmonella.
E. coli is a group of bacteria that are commonly found in a healthy human intestine. However, some of her species may be dangerous and cause serious health problems – the disease As bloody diarrhea, hemolytic-uremic syndrome (goose) to damage and renal failure, but also respiratory diseases or pneumonia.
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« Consumers expect comfort and safety, but the reality is that the prewashed vegetables in pockets remain one of the most risky items in the food store for the risks of contamination throughout the supply chain, » Huffpost portal Darin Detwiler, Professor of Food Policy at Northeastern University and author of the book Food safety: past, present and predictions.
Although the likelihood of infection from unwashed packaged salad is relatively low, it does not mean that this does not happen.
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