Everyone knows that you need to wash your hands before eating. Everyone knows that the food itself, if it is raw, should also be washed properly. But doctors advise you not to stop and wash even what someone has already washed you, as the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net For example, fresh greens, sold prepackaged and ready for use. A fly of the ointment in this barrel of honey (or rather, in a bowl with salad) was added by the British bacteriologist Hugh Pennington: if you take lightly to a salad, he says, one can encounter what people are not desirable to meet. For example, with cryptosporidia, causing traveler's diarrhea, salmonella and even a causative agent of listeriosis, from which it is generally possible to die.

Another "surprise" - the bacterium E. coli, which caused an outbreak of intestinal infection in Germany in the spring of 2011.

All these microorganisms are present in both soil and water, so even if the salad looks clean, it does not mean anything. "Most of the vegetables are grown in countries where hygiene standards are somewhat different," explains Professor Pennington. And it clarifies that it's not even that the unwashed greens are given out for washing - some microorganisms should not fall on such plants at all, because they can be eliminated only with culinary processing and special means.

What in such situation to do to fans to have a bite-fast? The scientist himself advises all the same to repeatedly wash the packaged salads.

Another important point is storage: information about temperature (low) and shelf life (small) the manufacturer writes not for a tick.

If the temperature regime is not respected, the bacteria that may have fallen on the leaves of the lettuce will begin to multiply rapidly and the risk of picking up something intestinal will increase dramatically. And finally, the third: if the salad itself looks normal, but the packaging is swollen, if some of the leaves are spoiled, if the greens smell strange, the best thing is to send it not to the table, but to the scrap.

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