does the five second rule really work?

No, I heard on the radio last night that the germs on the ground are five times dirtier than the average toilet.

Yes, it does lol i do it all the time if i drop some food or something i pick it up really quickly and make sure there is nothing on it and i carry on in the day, i know it may sound strange :) the only time i don't pick my food back up is when im in the streets because that there is pretty wrong to do people spit on the streets and stuff but if its in the comfort of your own home then yeah pick it up within 5 second and it because at the end of the day it your floor lol

Generally no.

The exception is when either the thing being dropped or the surface it is being dropped on is wet. In that case, it can take time for the germs to migrate from their origin to the dropped item - and if it can take time, then presumably you can pick it up faster than that time would be.

That only has meaning when the bad thing (the germ) is separated from the good thing (the food) by a layer of moisture which takes time to penetrate. If the good thing directly touches the bad thing when it is dropped, it takes no time at all.

So - in the vast majority of cases, no, the five second rule is meaningless.

Well depends where you are like if your in your home then the floor must be clean right so maybe the rule woudnt work there..

Okay but if your in a public place a lot of dirty shoes touch the floor so maybe its would work there and then third when your outside you can kinda figure that out,,,,

Does Santa Clause exist too? The '5 2nd rule' in theory is supposedly so because of the fact in case you drop somewhat foodstuff this is not contaminated via micro organism if its on the floor for below 5 seconds. somewhat, there is already micro organism on the foodstuff from the guy who arranged it, on your mouth, and additionally airborne. So, I purely pass via the '24 hour rule'.

No, it does not. The Mythbusters tested this. In a time of 5 minutes the same amount of bacteria that it got is almost the same as 5 seconds

Not really because as soon as something drops bacteria cling to it like a magnet. Another thing to realize is that as soon as you open a sealed package You are letting bacteria around food, processed meat and other food. There are even millions of mites and other animals living in your ears around eye lids and skin eating and thriving on your dead skin and fluids. THIS IS ALL JUST SCIENTIFIC PROOF . THERE IS YOUR ANSWER RIGHTLY CHOSEN.

well having it on the floor for 1 second gets the same number of germs as 18 seconds. so no

It's the 3 second rule and no.

Yes.

The 5 second rule works.

I can only stand 5 more seconds of this.