BRITS will eat dropped food that has been on the floor for up to six seconds, research has found. A study of 2,000 adults revealed 73 per cent would happily eat a piece of food that has fallen on t… ...

Science; Food; Can you trust the 'three second rule' for food dropped on the floor? We have the answer A recent study by Dr Ronald Cutler, a microbiologist from Queen Mary, University of London ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 14 (UPI) --The five-second rule is ubiquitous: Adults and children, slovenly and squeaky-clean people alike, often scoop food off the floor after it drops and, as long ...

When you drop a piece of food on the floor, any bacteria living on the floor will adhere to it. So if you eat the food you've dropped, you're also eating any bacteria the food picked up.

I f you’ve ever dropped food on the floor, you’re probably familiar with the five-second rule. It's been cited for generations as a justification to eat food after it's been on the floor. It's ...

Research led by Anthony Hilton, a professor of applied microbiology at Aston University, Birmingham, shows 87 per cent of people say they would eat food dropped on the floor, or have done so. The ...

YOU may want to think twice before you invoke the ‘five-second rule’ for food that’s fallen on the floor. Channel 4’s How To Stay Well has discovered there is no such thing as a ‘safe’ … ...

Microbiologist Anthony Hilton at Aston University had his students look into how much E.Coli and Staph bacteria collected on food that had just been dropped on the floor.

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.

The researchers conducted multiple trials of each combination of food, surface and contact time. Seconds count. While they showed the 5-second rule to be untrue, time does matter, said Schaffner.

We've all been there: You dropped your cupcake on the ground. Did it land icing up, down? Can you just scrape off the icing? How many hours have you lost trying to decide? Here's a time-saving flow ...

BRITS will eat dropped food that has been on the floor for up to six seconds, research has found. A study of 2,000 adults revealed 73 per cent would happily eat a piece of food that has fallen on t… ...