It seems more and more reasons to not eat at fast-food restaurant. Previously we often hear about how the food processing in many restaurants and restaurants that don’t pay attention to cleanliness and health of consumers. Now, let us look at the quality of the soda that is also widely available in the fast food restaurant. A recent study has revealed that 48% drink soda at fast food restaurants contains coliform bacteria, a bacteria that normally grow in the feces, and also 11% contained E. Coli.
This research was conducted by a team of microbiologists at HollinsUniversity, and published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology.
Coliform bacteria was detected in 48% of soft drinks and 20% had heterotrophic plate, more than 11% of soft drinks containing Escherichia coli (E. coli), and also more than 17% contained Chryseobacterium meningosepticum. Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms isolated from soda drinks included Klebsiella species, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. Most of the identified bacteria showed resistance to one or more of the 11 antibiotics tested.
Results are stunning, soft drinks not only contain bacteria originating from feces and potentially dangerous, but the bacteria also have become resistant to antibiotics.
