To keep bugs off your meat, just add plums. Mixing extracts of dried plums
with minced beef and pork, kills off major food-borne pathogens such as
E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella and Staphylococcus
aureus, says Daniel Fung at Kansas State University. So little of the
extract is needed that it can’t even be tasted. The bacteria are killed by
antioxidants in the extracts, which could also be used to preserve turkey and
fish too, says Fung.
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