Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria

Abstract Background The consumption of fresh vegetables and salads has become popular, and because of a greater understanding of health benefits, these are most often eaten raw or with minimal processing. Main body of the abstract The microbiological safety of these vegetables is necessary and the p...

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Autores principales: Igba Profit, Adebayo Sami’a Yunus, Gbonjubola Olusesan Adeshina, Babajide Akinyele Tytler, Ahmed Babangida Suleiman, Busayo Olalekan Olayinka
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c988d6d986e54f17ab78ae52eb5a27ba2021-11-08T11:13:09ZSystematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria10.1186/s42269-021-00633-82522-8307https://doaj.org/article/c988d6d986e54f17ab78ae52eb5a27ba2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-021-00633-8https://doaj.org/toc/2522-8307Abstract Background The consumption of fresh vegetables and salads has become popular, and because of a greater understanding of health benefits, these are most often eaten raw or with minimal processing. Main body of the abstract The microbiological safety of these vegetables is necessary and the possible source of contamination includes microbial contamination of raw produce, workers hygiene and the condition of the environment and equipment used to process the salad and fresh vegetable for distribution. This article reviewed the previously published literature on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetable and salad. There was 100% isolation of bacteria in all of the studies review which include Escherichia coli, Aspergillus spp., Staphyloccocus aureus, Salmonella, Klebsiella spp., Actinomycetes, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Staphyloccocus epidermidis, Bacillus spp., Shigella spp., Lactobacillus and Streptoccocus spp. Short conclusion The review study recommended that fresh vegetables and salad should be properly washed with clean water before preparing.Igba ProfitAdebayo Sami’a YunusGbonjubola Olusesan AdeshinaBabajide Akinyele TytlerAhmed Babangida SuleimanBusayo Olalekan OlayinkaSpringerOpenarticleFresh vegetable and saladMicrobiological qualityContaminationScienceQENBulletin of the National Research Centre, Vol 45, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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topic Fresh vegetable and salad
Microbiological quality
Contamination
Science
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spellingShingle Fresh vegetable and salad
Microbiological quality
Contamination
Science
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Igba Profit
Adebayo Sami’a Yunus
Gbonjubola Olusesan Adeshina
Babajide Akinyele Tytler
Ahmed Babangida Suleiman
Busayo Olalekan Olayinka
Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
description Abstract Background The consumption of fresh vegetables and salads has become popular, and because of a greater understanding of health benefits, these are most often eaten raw or with minimal processing. Main body of the abstract The microbiological safety of these vegetables is necessary and the possible source of contamination includes microbial contamination of raw produce, workers hygiene and the condition of the environment and equipment used to process the salad and fresh vegetable for distribution. This article reviewed the previously published literature on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetable and salad. There was 100% isolation of bacteria in all of the studies review which include Escherichia coli, Aspergillus spp., Staphyloccocus aureus, Salmonella, Klebsiella spp., Actinomycetes, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Staphyloccocus epidermidis, Bacillus spp., Shigella spp., Lactobacillus and Streptoccocus spp. Short conclusion The review study recommended that fresh vegetables and salad should be properly washed with clean water before preparing.
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author Igba Profit
Adebayo Sami’a Yunus
Gbonjubola Olusesan Adeshina
Babajide Akinyele Tytler
Ahmed Babangida Suleiman
Busayo Olalekan Olayinka
author_facet Igba Profit
Adebayo Sami’a Yunus
Gbonjubola Olusesan Adeshina
Babajide Akinyele Tytler
Ahmed Babangida Suleiman
Busayo Olalekan Olayinka
author_sort Igba Profit
title Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
title_short Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
title_full Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
title_fullStr Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in Nigeria
title_sort systematic review on the microbiological quality of fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salad in nigeria
publisher SpringerOpen
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/c988d6d986e54f17ab78ae52eb5a27ba
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