掉在地上的食物10秒內(nèi)可以撿起吃嗎

The 10-second second rule is a 'dangerous myth' and could actually KILL you.

十秒鐘的原則是“危險的空談”而且可以使你致命。

Millions of people abide by the so-called ‘ten-second rule’ - judging food as OK to eat if it only touches the floor momentarily.

上百萬人都在遵守“10秒種原則”去判斷短時間掉在地上的食物是否可以食用。

But researchers have branded the age-old convention a myth - and claim a third of us are putting our health at risk of a ‘silent killer’ by eating dirty food.

但是研究人員將這種由來已久的說法看作是虛無縹緲的，并且聲稱三分之一的人將通過吃臟的東西置自己于“隱形殺手”的危害健康的狀態(tài)。

A survey has found that 37 per cent of those polled would eat food that was dropped on the kitchen floor, while 38 per cent would pick it off the living room floor and eat it.

一項調(diào)查顯示參與調(diào)查的37%的人會吃掉在廚房地上的食物，而38%的人會吃掉在客廳的食物。

According to Dr Ackerley, the worst bacteria in our homes are ‘silent killers’ that we cannot see or smell but that can multiply from a single bacterium to several million in just seven hours.

據(jù)阿克力博士稱，我們居家最糟糕的“隱形殺手”細菌要數(shù)那些我們看不到也聞不到但是卻可以在七個小時內(nèi)從單一的個體繁殖成成千上萬的細菌群了。

Rachelle Williams, of the Food Safety Information Council, said we need to consider the type of food before picking something up off the floor and eating it.

食品安全信息委員會的蕾切爾·威廉姆斯說，在我們撿起并食用這些食物的時候我們要考慮食物的種類。

'It all comes down to bacteria,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

她告訴澳洲每日郵報，“所有問題都歸結(jié)到細菌本身。”