You know you've done it and 70% of women and 65% of men were familiar with the five-second rule, and most utilized the rule in their decisions to eat food that had fallen on the floor.
The conclusion was that in most cases, dry floors would be safe to eat from.
This was confirmed by two students at Conneticut College.
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They dropped skittles and apple slices on the campus dining room floor.
Skittles were good for at least a minute and the apple slices for thirty seconds.
A study on the five-second rule was also performed by Jillian Clarke, a high school senior, during a seven-week internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.
Clarke in her tests wanted to test the five-second hypothesis in cases where the floor was known to be contaminated. She therefore spread E. coli on both rough and smooth floor tiles in a laboratory, placed pieces of gummy bears and cookies on the tiles for various amounts of time, and then examined the foods under the microscope. All the foods had a significant amount of bacteria in less than five seconds. She also found that women were more likely than men to use the rule, and that cookies and candy were more likely to be picked up than broccoli or cauliflower.
So how lucky do you feel today?
The conclusion was that in most cases, dry floors would be safe to eat from.
This was confirmed by two students at Conneticut College.
Click the video here
http://abcnews.go.com/gma
They dropped skittles and apple slices on the campus dining room floor.
Skittles were good for at least a minute and the apple slices for thirty seconds.
A study on the five-second rule was also performed by Jillian Clarke, a high school senior, during a seven-week internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.
Clarke in her tests wanted to test the five-second hypothesis in cases where the floor was known to be contaminated. She therefore spread E. coli on both rough and smooth floor tiles in a laboratory, placed pieces of gummy bears and cookies on the tiles for various amounts of time, and then examined the foods under the microscope. All the foods had a significant amount of bacteria in less than five seconds. She also found that women were more likely than men to use the rule, and that cookies and candy were more likely to be picked up than broccoli or cauliflower.
So how lucky do you feel today?
