Health Alert
Salmonella:
Did you know that packaged salad mixes, promote Salmonella growth?
Nope neither did I until I saw an article in Natural Health and began researching it.
From the research, more and more sources are claiming that bagged salad promotes the growth of Salmonella. More specifically it is the secreted juices from CUT and or damaged leaves which allows Salmonella Enterica Bacteria to proliferate (evenunder refrigeration).
Ewe...
So what is "Salmonella Enterica Bacteria", well it is a Typhoid based bacteria (rod shaped as pictured above), that can pass through the stomach to the intestines. It then binds to the inner walls of the intestine, andis also able to travel through the walls and into our insides. Once there it permeates the liver or spleen.
Now for most bacteria, this journey would kill them, but Salmonella has evolved attributes or mechanisms that prevent our immune system from ridding the bacteria. Once in the liver, the Salmonella can multiply and be released back into the intestines.
Some of the Salmonella will pass through the intestinal wall, however many of them are expelled from the intestine in the diarrhea. The bacteria also then can cause a Typhus type fever in the victim... which can lead to more severe health issues from abdominal cramping, metastic legions in bones, joints and liver. Additionally it can cause hemmoraging but in developed health care this fever and it's havoc can be recovery of 10 - 14 days.
One last inspiring thought is that within regions of poor sanitation, the bacteria can survive in the soil or in rivers and infect the next person, cow, chicken or mouse that comes along.
So folks anything that is even somewhat processed has a better chance of not being so good for you, no matter what it is.
Now They Say:
That eating bagged salad isn't necessarily bad... I say for me; it's unpackaged from now on.
Man it's a jungle out there.
Image Credit: 2011.igem.org
Sources: http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2016/10/26/AEM.02416-16.abstract
http://naturalsociety.com/bagged-salad-convenient-promoter-salmonella-10489/