Contamination on Beverage Caps

When you buy a soda or any other beverage, do you just open its cap when consumption and drink it straight away?

Have you ever thought that the top part of the beverage bottle or can might be contaminated and that this contamination might enter your body when it comes into contact with your mouth?

Let's do a test together.

Now look! Do you see how contaminated it is?!

Some of us carelessly use the corner of our clothes to clean it or, trying to be more hygienic, we may wipe it with a paper napkin!

It is recommended to use a paper napkin soaked in alcohol to clean the microbial contamination from the beverages bottle or can outlet.

Let's do an experiment to see whether or not this method has any effect on reducing the contamination.

This is the result of the test, showing that almost no contamination is left.

Since the beverage cans may become contaminated during transportation, storage, and through contacting with different hands, it is better to clean the top of the beverage cans or bottles that comes in contact with the mouth using an alcohol wipe before drinking to prevent the transfer of microbes to our bodies.