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Pre-washed bagged salads are one item busy eaters often depend on — they’re ready to go straight from the grocer’s refrigerator to your salad bowl in no time at all, providing you with a healthy and quick meal or side in less time than it takes to make toast. But there’s a price to this convenience, and according to recent studies by Consumer Reports, that price is a bunch of bacteria on your leafy greens. Even so-called ‘triple washed’ salads are far from squeaky clean.
Consumer Reports tested 208 containers of salad from 16 different brands. And what did they discover? “[We found] bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination — in some cases, at rather high levels,” says the report. What’s more, the amount of bacteria seemed to rise depending on the “sell-by” or “best before“date — those that were furthest from this date by approximately six to eight days (i.e., the fresher ones) fared better than those that were coming up on theirs.
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