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You wipe your hands on them, use them to wipe the dining room table, gloss utensils and plates, then hang them on the oven handle or wall hook to dry. But have you ever considered the amount of bacteria that your cooking napkins host after all this daily wear? The researchers at the University of Mauritiop studied small puggers hide in this kitchen clip and have recently introduced a study on their research to the annual American company for the microbiology meeting.

The study

Researchers collected 100 cook towels after a month of use, then cultivated and identified the bacteria. They have discovered that factors such as family size, diet type and multi-use towels affect potentially growthFood poisoning-causing pathogens. Nearly half of all tested cooking napkins have shown bacterial growth and 49%, 36.7% showed TEROCOCCUS spp, 36.7% increased coliforms and 14.3% had S. aureus. These last two present significantly in towels found in non-vegetarian kitchens.

The towels found in the houses with larger families and children had more bacteria that prevail that houses with smaller families. In addition, the versatile towels used to wipe wiping utensils, drying hands, hot utensils and cleaning surfaces contained more pathogens than single-use towels. They also noted that wet towels have resulted in more bacteria than dry towels.

"The data indicated that non-hygienic practices while manipulating non-vegetarian foods could be common in the kitchen", Dr. Biranjia-Hurdoyal, Senior Speaker of the Department of Health Sciences, University of Mauritius, Mauritius, saidScience dailyReferring to the possibility that kitchen towels can trigger cross-contamination and thus result in food poisoning. "Wet towels and versatile use of kitchen towels should be discouraged. Great families with children and elderly members should be particularly vigilant to hygiene cooking."

How often should you change your cloth?

While the tea towels are a source of primordial pathogens in your kitchen, there is a simple way to keep them without bug. "I recommendChange the kitchen towels every dayin the kitchen and family bathrooms ", Becky Rapinchuk, founder ofClean and author ofQuite clean andThe biologically clean house,tell us.

"This habit is essential to keep pathogens of food origin and other bacteria. My routine is to put a flat and hand towels after dinner is cleaned and after the countertops are wiped. Leave the towels dry before to put them in a wash basket and wash them separately from anything else on the hot cycle of your washing machine, "she recommends. Foodsafety.gov also recommends this solution. Rapinchuk also warns that towels washing Cooking with clothes is a sure way to introduce bacteria.

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