Convenience is tempting when you are rushing to prepare a healthy breakfast. The produce department offers beautiful plastic tubs filled with brightly colored, precut fruit. You pay a premium for the chopped fruit to save 10 minutes of prep time in your own kitchen. While buying sliced apples or peeled grapes is generally safe, certain fruits pose a severe hazard when processed in a commercial facility. Recent outbreaks of foodborne illness forced health experts to issue new warnings. The factory cutting process introduces dangerous bacteria directly into the sweet flesh of specific fruits. Here are 3 fruits you should never buy precut due to new Salmonella risks.
