The Most Dangerous Vegetables Ranked
By Lauren Torrisi
ABC News Blogs – 7 hrs ago
Knife in hand, you shoot a puzzled glance at the butternut squash sitting on the cutting board, unsure of where to begin. You're not alone-a new study in the UK found that 88 percent of people injure themselves in the kitchen and over half of them do it while preparing vegetables.
In honor of National Safety Week, Just Eat surveyed over 2,000 of its customers to find the top five most dangerous vegetables to prep. Here's what topped the list:
1. Pumpkin 2. Swede (rutabaga) 3. Butternut Squash 4. Turnip 5. Jerusalem Artichoke
Thirty-nine percent of people said they injured themselves because the vegetable was difficult to cut.
"The kitchen is where some of the most serious home accidents occur and cuts are among the most common types of injury to happen, with tens of thousands of people attending A&E as a result each year," said Sheila Merrill, a public health adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in a statement.
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