date:Mar 19, 2019
Most people give a bagged salad a quick rinse with tap water before they eat it, just to get rid of pesticides or bugs. But according to new research, washing a salad might be making you more likely to get ill, not less.
The Istituto Superiore di Sanit, the research arm of the Italian National Health Service, had researcher Dr Elisabetta Delibato deliberately spike lettuce with both salmonella and Yersinia enterocolitica a bacteria that attacks the gut and can cause sepsis. The lettuce was the