The 10 dirtiest foods you eat include: 1. Chicken 2. Ground Beef 3. Ground Turkey 4. Raw Oysters 5. Eggs 6. Cantaloupe 7. Peaches 8. Prepackaged Lettuce 9. Cold Cuts 10. Scallions Reasonings for the top 3 dirtiest foods: Chicken- Never mind cigarettes; the Surgeon General should slap a warning label on chicken. Recent nationwide testing by Consumers Union, the advocacy group behind Consumer Reports, notes that of the 484 raw broilers examined, 42 percent were infected by Campylobacter jejuni, and 12 percent by Salmonella enterides. Ground Beef- Even a little ground chuck can make you upchuck. When USDA inspectors last tested hamburger meat, they looked at 563 sources nationwide and discovered Clostridium perfringens in 53 percent of the batches, Staphylococcus in 30 percent, and Listeria monocytogenes in 12 percent. Interestingly, the USDA found no trace of Escherichia coli 0157:H7, a.k.a. E. coli, one of the desperadoes of foodborne illness. Despite this finding, if slaughterhouse safeguards fail (and they sometimes do), E. coli could potentially pop up in your next patty. Ground Turkey- Potentially one of the foulest of the fowl. A USDA survey showed that the odds are better than one in four that your ground gobbler contains Listeria, Campylobacter, Clostridium, or some combination of the three. Whats more, in a separate study by the FDA and the University of Maryland, 24 percent of the ground turkey sampled came back positive for Salmonella. And some of that Salmonella was resistant to antibiotics. Want to read more? Visit menshealth/mhlists/foodborne_illness/
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:36:01 +0000
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