BLOG: Food-Safety alert: Ditch the take-home sushi after 24 hours, UF expert warns - (Floriday Today Blogs)
September 11, 2007 – 8:39 pmAre you a fan of ready-to-eat sushi from the grocery store? Do you bring home leftovers from restaurants? Well, say “sayonara” to any leftover sushi after 24 hours, warns a University of Florida food-safety expert.
That’s because foods can interact when they’re placed together. Inside a sushi roll, bacteria sometimes find ideal conditions in the spaces where moist ingredients come in contact with dry ones, or where foods with different acidity levels meet. The result: faster spoilage.
“Sushi is meant to be consumed the day you buy it,” said Keith Schneider, an associate professor of food science with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Schneider co-authored a document on safe sushi preparation in retail operations.
Each food item has a different spoilage rate so it’s difficult to put a shelf life on sushi, Schneider said in a prepared statement. “Any signs of spoilage are bad, but just because it looks good doesn’t […]
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