The Agricultural Research Service and Arizona State University partnered together to try to make a safer hamberger. They tested 24 different food extract powders to add to hamburger and then cooked the hamburger to 160 degrees. They found that olive powder reduced E coli 0157.H7 and two carcinogens that are formed when you cook hamburgers to 160 degrees.
These carcinogens are called heterocyclic amines. the two they studied are called MeIQ and PhlP. The olive powder reduced the MelQ by 80% and the PhlP by 84%.
E. coli O157:H7 is a well-known cause of food poisoning in the United States and is blamed for about 60,000 cases of illness annually. E. coli O157:H7 lives in the intestinal tract of animals and can be spread by animals defecating in a farmers field. It can also get on an animals carcass during slaughtering.
Olive powder is made from pitted olives after the oil has been extracted. Who Knows, next time you go to to Mc Donalds you may get an olive burger.
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