You take a bite of your salad and find a long dark hair, which is definitely not yours. Your appetite may have disappeared immediately, but how dirty and harmful is a hair in your food?
Did you know… It's not for nothing that we are disgusted by things we find disgusting. Disgust has a function:it protects us from harmful bacteria and parasites. But we are disgusted by more than is harmful to us.
Hair in your food
A hair in your food is distasteful, but not unhealthy or dangerous. Hair is made of the protein keratin, which does not attract many germs. Even if there are germs on a hair, this almost never causes problems. In the worst case, you get diarrhea, but that doesn't happen often, according to expert Maria Colavincenzo.
Do you empty your plate after you find a hair in your food?
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