Wash Your Lettuce
I was reading an interesting article about lettuce today and then I checked out a recent consumer report article on lettuce and cringed after. Why? Because if you use bagged lettuce, (which we do) then there might be some not so clean things inside. According to the consumer report’s, 39% of the bagged lettuce tested exceeded the acceptable level for coliforms and 23% for enterococcus.
Now I don’t know about you but since I have been following the P90X nutrition plan and the Insanity nutrition plan, I have been eating a lot more chicken salads. Yes, there is bagged lettuce in my salad and the thought of that bacteria doesn’t sit to well with me now. Guess we will have to start buying a whole head of lettuce or rinse the heck out of the begged lettuce. I don’t even want to imagine how this bacteria gets into a bag of lettuce but I’m sure it’s not pretty. Would it be to early for a Xmas wish in February? All I want for Xmas is “bacteria free” lettuce. Is that too much to ask?
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Interesting post. I had no idea that there was that much bacteria on our lettuce. Kind grosses me out…thankfully I always wash everything I purchase. Who knows whose hands were touching our food, and where those hands were just prior to picking.