You might want to rethink your options next time you’re asked, ‘Ice and slice’ – unless you like drinking poo and other people’s spit.
Philip Tierno, author of The Secret Life of Germs says that his in his tests on lemon slices, he ‘
always comes up with evidence of contamination from the skin, respiratory secretions, and fecal matter.’
Previous research found that up to 70% of lemon slices served in drinks at restaurants had potentially harmful microbes on them.
Tierno told Elle, “People are touching the lemon in your glass, handling it, cutting it, placing it in a container or a cup, or a glass; and then picking up those slices at a later point in time and dropping them into a drink and putting them on the rim of a glass.
‘Hand washing is one of the things that’s not practiced very well, especially after using bathroom facilities. There are many major studies that prove that
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