Is It Really Safe To Eat Raw Food Like Salad Or Sushi?

• Li Ka Shing

  21 Dec 05, 17:29

  Hi,
  
  Is it really safe to eat raw food like salad or sushi?
  
  I thought the purpose of cooking is to kill germs. So if the food is uncooked, that means there might be germs, isn't that right?
• the Bear

  21 Dec 05, 17:29

  kill the evil yogurt!
• dragg

  21 Dec 05, 17:30

  wasabi kills the germs.
  
  
• Simple_Bear

  21 Dec 05, 17:31

  U haf to see hw the salad and sushi is being prepared...
  
  
• yuko-ogura

  21 Dec 05, 17:32

  as long as cross-contamination doesn't occur..it would be fine..
  
  worried?
  
  go wash wif mama-lemon.
• SBS9828X

  21 Dec 05, 17:35

  Originally posted by yuko-ogura:

  as long as cross-contamination doesn't occur..it would be fine..
  
  worried?
  
  go wash wif mama-lemon.

  cool
• twiggies

  21 Dec 05, 17:36

  drink ENO.
• storywolf

  21 Dec 05, 17:36

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Hi,
  
  Is it really safe to eat raw food like salad or sushi?
  
  I thought the purpose of cooking is to kill germs. So if the food is uncooked, that means there might be germs, isn't that right?

  People prepare salad, wash the veg extra clean .
  
  For Sushi, extra fresh and extra clean also is ensure during preparation. .
• elindra

  21 Dec 05, 17:38

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Hi,
  
  Is it really safe to eat raw food like salad or sushi?
  
  I thought the purpose of cooking is to kill germs. So if the food is uncooked, that means there might be germs, isn't that right?

  Any food once exposed to air will have bacteria and germs on them. Even cooked food
• Li Ka Shing

  21 Dec 05, 17:39

  Who eat sushi with wasabi all the time?
  
  And what about those steaks......rare ones, with blood...Wouldn't that mean there's a lot of safety/ health risk too?
• alexkusu

  21 Dec 05, 17:41

  It depends on the food handler. Most food poisonin sources are food handlers. So..better eat from a well known sushi restaurant with a reputation to keep and better QC systems.
• alexkusu

  21 Dec 05, 17:42

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Who eat sushi with wasabi all the time?
  
  And what about those steaks......rare ones, with blood...Wouldn't that mean there's a lot of safety/ health risk too?

  Beef is generally much more sterile than chicken meat. Hence more people eat raw or beef sashimi then something like raw chicken
• AugoeideS

  21 Dec 05, 17:58

  Salad is okay.
  
  In fact, most of the food poisoning derived from eating raw meat-origin foods.
  
  
• alexkusu

  21 Dec 05, 18:00

  Vegetables also carry harmful pathogens. So does seafood, eggs, etc..dosent mean food without raw meat is safe
• Komon

  21 Dec 05, 18:13

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Hi,
  
  Is it really safe to eat raw food like salad or sushi?
  
  I thought the purpose of cooking is to kill germs. So if the food is uncooked, that means there might be germs, isn't that right?

  lame lei... so hum for what....
• dranoel maxwell

  21 Dec 05, 18:17

  well eating raw aint that bad... don't worry so much lah get the food into your digestive system is the ulmost thing first... anyway the reason why jap are so clever and long lasting is because they eat raw sushi...(not very sure about it though)