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We have lost count of the number of so-called magical kitchen tips that Tik Tok has made us discover. This time, it’s about keeping the avocados longer… Except that this technique could make you sick!
There was a promotion on avocados, but you don’t plan to cook them right away. So you might be tempted to follow the advice that is all the rage right now on Tik Tok. The recommendation is simple: you place the avocados in a carafe. You fill with fresh water and store in the refrigerator. This trick presented as magic by the members of the social network would allow you to keep the avocados for up to a month, according to the words of the authors of these videos which generate several million views…
Watch out for bacteria!
What they don’t tell you – or rather what they don’t know – is that your fruit could make you sick if stored this way. At a time when recalls of food products contaminated with salmonella are on everyone’s mind, like Kinder eggs, the reason not to follow this new trend signed Tik Tok will probably not fly. According to the FDA, the US Food and Drug Administration, any bacteria present on the skin of avocados could multiply in the water. According to a spokesperson who spoke to Newsweeklisteria monocytogenes has the ability to infiltrate the very flesh of the fruit within 15 days.
In a report published in 2018, the American health authorities had already spotted the presence of this bacterium, which can induce fever, vomiting and digestive disorders. Of a sample of 1,615 avocados, 17% did contain this pathogenic microbe. That’s why you should always wash the skin of avocados before you even prepare them…