We NEED a morning coffee before functioning properly but after coming across the below research, we’ll be extra careful about cleaning the coffee machine after use.
If you use a coffee pod machine, then the drip tray which holds the run-off liquid can house some pretty nasty bacteria.
Mental Floss reports that researchers from the University of Valencia looked at ten espresso machines, and monitored the growth of bacteria over a period of two months.
Although caffeine has anti-bacterial properties, strains of caffeine resistant bacteria developed in the drip trays.
We feel the same…
According to Scientific America, Enterococcus bacteria, “a typical marker of human fecal contamination”, was found in nine of the ten machines.
Another type of bacteria found in the coffee machines tested was Pseudomonas, which has “both benign and pathogenic strains”.
It is important to remember that the coffee isn’t at risk but we’re going to be cleaning the drip trays after each use in future nonetheless.
