The Science Behind the Five Second Rule, Does it Really Work?

The science of dropping your food on the ground reveals surprising lessons in this video from the hit YouTube science series Vsauce. The show's founder and host, Michael Stevens, set out to verify the five-second rule, citing research in The Journal of Applied Microbiology and investigations by others, including Mythbusters, to get to the bottom of the myth. For one, he found out that after one minute on the floor, food has 10x the bacteria as after five seconds.