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In general, acidic or basic foods are very safe from bacterial contamination standpoint. Soda is very acidic (due to all that dissolved carbon dioxide). It's n
by cyberax 2y ago
In general, acidic or basic foods are very safe from bacterial contamination standpoint. Soda is very acidic (due to all that dissolved carbon dioxide).
It's not that it doesn't get bacteria (they live everywhere), but it's unlikely to get pathogenic bacteria. This makes sense, a highly acidic environment is very different from a human body.
That's why foods such as milk, ice cream, potato or egg salad, are the most dangerous from the bacterial contamination standpoint.
- throwaway48476 2y agoIn fact strong acids and bases are so safe they also kill the bacteria in the human body, along with the host.
- IWeldMelons 2y agoSoda is not "very acidic", for the exception of coke, which has strong acid added to it. Carbonic acid is very weak, and won't prevent bacteria from growing.
- cyberax 2y agoCarbonic acid has a pH of around 4 in sodas. Stomach acid is 3. Both are enough to discourage bacterial growth. It doesn't prevent _all_ bacteria, as I said. But it prevents most of pathogenic bacteria.