Dropped Food!!

If you drop that a rice ball at lunch,
what do you do?
Do you pick it up, and keep on eating?
Or you forget the rice ball?


When I was child, my mother often say, if you pick up the dropped food within 5 seconds, it's still safe to eat. Honestly, I sometime still use the 5 second rule even though I know the rule has no fundation, and it's well-advised not to eat a dropped food.

But, I was surprised that there is 30 seconds rule in other contries. Do you feel that eating dropped food which is picked up after 30 seconds is still safe to eat? I think the dropped food culture is common in the world, and would be interesting to know more, so I reserched it.

According to a food scientist, Paul Dawson, atClemson University, maintains that people should use a zero-second rule not 5 or 30 rule because bacteria can live for several weeks on a dry floor and move into a doropped food in less than a second.

However, there is also opposition to this opinion. Students at Connecticut College did an experiment with apple slices and Skittles. They found that bacteria did not move on the a

pples for at least one minute, and Skittles for at least five minutes.


Now, what will do for a dropped food?