Food scientist reveals the popular foods she refuses to eat for disturbing reasons

A popular vegetable has been labelled as a 'high risk food' by a health expert.

There's new food trends popping up all the time, a recent one being dried yogurt.

The unique cuisine is said to be inspired by labneh - a soft Middle Eastern cheese made from strained yogurt.

On the basis you're not lactose-intolerant, the yogurt trend is said to be perfectly safe to eat.

The same can't be said about this emerging food trend, though, despite the fact the product in question being a vegetable.

Now, as the festive season comes to a close, there's a good chance you'll have been forced by your mom to eat Brussels sprouts with your Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner.

Brussels sprouts are usually steamed or boiled, but there's a new fad that sees people eating sprouts (Alfalfa sprouts in particular) raw.

According to a food scientist who goes by @hyroxide on TikTok, raw sprouts are a 'very, very, very, high risk food'.

"Foodborne bacteria are your besties on spring break," she explained.

"They want to go somewhere hot and moist, and they are thirsty. So, sprouts are basically grown in the ground in the warmest, most moist humid, wet environment that you can imagine, and guess what? Bacteria love it."

Usually cooking vegetables (or any food) kills off any potentially harmful bacteria, but by eating sprouts raw it means that you may be exposed to it and could become unwell.

The scientist said: "Unless you're blanching them or cooking them into submission, like, the sprouts you get with pho that usually come raw - I do not touch those."

Even handling high risk food like raw sprouts can pose a risk.

"When you are handling high risk food that is carrying all that moisture, it could get on all your kitchen supplies as well and your counters and your sink and lots of other things," the food expert explained in her video that's been viewed over six million times.

Long story short, you have a valid excuse to avoid eating raw sprouts.

Cooked sprouts though, not so much - unless you're in space, that is.

Reportedly astronauts are forbidden from eating the tiny green balls of monstrosity (depending on who you're asking) because of the gnarly farts they can bring on.

Not only is the smell pretty nasty, but apparently such farts up in space pose a fire hazard too.

With this in mind, baked beans, cabbage, and broccoli are also off the menu.