Unsheathed Peanuts: The Dangers Inherent In Its Consumption!

Unsheathed Peanuts: The Dangers Inherent In Its Consumption!

    Clean, but not clean!

  

Why is the consumption of unsheathed peanuts dangerous?

 Elucidations

   On sight from the shelf, alluring, tempting it is, for those whom the consumption of peanut is pleasant and agreeable, because of the way it appeals to the eyes of the consumer; all for cleaningness and the accentuation of its readiness for consumption.

     But the accentuation and the alluring cleaningness is a facade! Unsheathed roasted peanuts is the opposite of what it portrays. Larger percentage of roasted unsheathed peanuts are the microcosm of unseen disease causing microorganisms called pathogens! How do you mean? You'll ask me.

   Elucidations- Its Microbiology In Relation To Public Health.

Clean, but not microbiologically clean!

     Majority of consumables from moist or dry heat(prepared or cooked in boiling water, steam, hot oils, or in ovens etc.) are sterile when they are still very hot without the touch of contaminants e.g. human hands, air or air particles etc. But when their temperature comes down to room temperature, the air particles that settle on them at that temperature can be viable and can be pathogenic. The same condition holds true for roasted unsheathed peanuts. That's just the beginning, there is more to come.

    After peanuts cools down from dry heating(roasting), the sheathes are removed by friction i.e., sliding movement of the two palms with the peanuts against each other, with moist air(air from the human airways contains water vapour) blowed from the mouth and nose- where lots of germs(pathogens) are added. Gloves are not always used or used at all by the majority of people who unsheathe peanuts: these people will blow their nose, yawn, cough, and ease themselves while in the process of unsheathing the peanuts and still come back with those hands that have been contaminated with live(viable) germs(pathogens) to continue unsheathing the peanuts. A typical revulsing example of this dangerous acts to public health was my encounter with a woman on Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U.) campus when I was studying Microbiology at the institution. I was privileged to observe this unwholesome act and it stuck with me till today! The woman was unsheathing already roasted peanuts. She had some already prepared (unsheathed) in transparent nylons on display. But while in the process of unsheathing, she got up to ease herself at the back of her shop. After easing herself, immediately, without washing her hands, she resumed unsheathing the peanuts. (To be frank, you can't unsheathe peanuts with moist hands, so majority of people doing it will never want to bother themselves with washing their hands before unsheathing or after easing themselves while in the process of unsheathing roasted peanuts.)

Unsheathed peanuts are contaminated when handled with unwashed hands

   

      From this observation and with privileged microbiological knowledge and experience in immunology, if your immune system is compromised or suppressed, you can contract or get infected with cholera, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and venereal diseases such as Candida albican(yeast infection), Gonorrhoea and viral diseases just because you ate unsheathed peanuts that had been contaminated with urine, faeces, or any bodily fluids of the person that unsheathed the peanuts who is infected with or is a reservoir of their pathogens.

     In conclusion, whether in its common place- transparent bottles, nylons etc., in grocery store, unsheathed roasted peanuts are not medically ideal food for people to consume no matter how alluring or clean it appears to be on display!

   Recommendations

      I will  advise people to eat sheathed roasted peanuts instead. Endeavour to buy sheathed roasted peanuts, unsheathe it by yourself, anything you get through unsheathing it by yourself will be normal flora(germs from your own body), your immune system is familiar with your normal flora, but not with the normal flora(germs) of others.

You are safe from germs, when you unsheathe it by yourself

 You have now been given the privilege of information, do not be health wise deformed. Be informed!

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