News — hygiene studies

If you are asking “what’s the most hygienic everyday board for home cooking: wood or bamboo?”, hygiene studies suggest a well sealed Moso bamboo board used for vegetables and cooked foods, plus a separate hardwood board for raw meat, gives the lowest cross contamination risk in a typical kitchen. What hygiene studies actually say about wood vs bamboo Since the 1990s, food safety research has compared plastic, hardwood and bamboo boards. Several studies from universities in the US and Europe have shown three consistent points: Wood can trap bacteria inside the fibres where they dry out and die within a...