“If you remove the mold you can eat it” and other dangerous myths about food safety

Myths about food are like bacteria: they proliferate wherever they have a favorable environment.

Word of mouth and social networks are the ideal breeding ground for the spread of all kinds of unfounded beliefs about what we eat, but there are some that are especially alarming: those related to food safety.

Many people believe that if you remove the spoiled or moldy part of a food, you can eat the rest;

that if you cook something with high heat, you eliminate any danger, or that the best way to combat salmonella is to wash the eggs.

On the contrary, there are also unfounded prejudices about additives or microwaves, to which non-existent threats are attributed.

The food technologist Mario Sánchez, known on the networks as SefiFood, has just published the book

, in which he confronts nine of these legends: if you want to know why they are not true, watch the video above.

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