Food that has been dropped on the floor is usually safe to eat under the so-called “five-second rule”, a scientist has said. Germ expert Professor Anthony Hilton, from Aston University, said ...

Turns out that mainstay from childhood, the "five-second rule", is backed by scientific theory. You can (usually) eat food off the floor without ingesting life-altering cooties. In a survey of ...

Food that has been dropped on the floor is usually safe to eat under the so-called "five-second rule", according to a scientist from Aston University in Birmingham. Germ expert Professor Anthony ...

Is There Any Validity To The So-called 5-second Rule?. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 09 / 070926181352.htm ...

Germ Proof Your Kids. ... You probably knew the old five-second rule—dropped food can be safely picked up within five seconds—wasn't scientific. But scientists analyzed it an.

Although the five-second rule is a myth, it doesn't necessarily mean that food is unsafe after it's fallen on the floor. The health risk of eating the food depends on many factors, according to ...

The controversial “five-second rule” — the one that allows us to eat dropped food if it’s quickly scooped off the floor — is a bunch of baloney, according to Clemson University food ...

Chicago microbiologist Nicholas Aicher tested how the so-called “five-second rule” compared to longer and shorter-timed drops.