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20-Year-Old Dies From 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating Leftover Pasta (www.iheart.com)

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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 104 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly 5 days out on the counter was asking for trouble - that long is tempting fate even when stored properly in the fridge

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, cooked pasta? Two days tops, and I personally wouldn’t touch it after one. And why not refrigerate it? Did they not own one, because I can’t see any other logical explanation to not do this.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Two days on pasta? I give 5-7 in the fridge, and six months if I freeze it. Maybe a little less if its a dairy based sauce like alfredo

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like I said, tops. I wouldn't eat it personally, but I don’t think you’ll die.

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ngl I stretch it out to like 2 weeks sometimes, throwing out only only if it starts starts smelling or the texture goes bad...

Should I not be doing this lol

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Huh, i always thought that pasta and rice are some of the safer things to store a week in the fridge.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I mean there's caution and there's what is fine to do normally. I've noticed that especially online people heavily lean towards caution, some don't even reheat rise because dangerous.

I think something like five days is fine and just be sensible about it, look, smell, if seems good, taste, if good, should be just fine.

Dumbasses who just leave pasta in room temperature for five days and then eat it are what scare people in being really cautious and the reason some stricter recommendations are made.