Fancy a Mocha Frappe? Or perhaps an Ice Blended Double Chocolate Cookie Mocha will hit that spot in this sweltering heat. But before ordering that Frappe Crème Coffee and Caramel, perhaps it is best to know that ice from Starbucks, Caffé Nero and Costa Coffee all contain bacteria found in human feces.
According to BBC‘s consumer series Watchdog, samples of the iced drinks from these three major coffee chains were tested and the results revealed varying levels of the bacteria. Seven out of 10 samples of ice used in Costa Coffee tested positive with bacteria from human poop, while three out of 10 samples from both Caffé Nero and Starbucks tested the same.
Rob Kingsley, an expert in food-borne pathogens and a research leader at Quadram Institute Bioscience tells The Guardian that the findings were extremely concerning. This is because the presence of coliforms indicates fecal contamination and this means that essentially, anything which is in feces could be in that ice.
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