{"id":276110,"date":"2010-02-04T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/04\/pre-washed-salad-with-a-side-of-bacteria\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:25:00","slug":"pre-washed-salad-with-a-side-of-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276110","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Washed Salad With a Side of Bacteria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>, that price is a bunch of bacteria on your leafy greens. Even so-called ‘triple washed’ salads are far from squeaky clean.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. What’s more, the amount of bacteria seemed to rise depending on the “sell-by” or “best before<\/span><\/span>“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.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Advice, Health, Healthy Eating, Worrywart 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}