Health expert reveals the one thing she would never touch at a restaurant or bar

A health expert has warned people to never accept one certain thing in a restaurant or bar after one person claims to have been hospitalised as a result.

It's not an unusual experience to rock up to a fancy bar and get your drink garnished, or have some pretty fancy looking sides on your plate in a nice restaurant.

And if you're into gins and rums, or even maybe a fruity cocktail every now and then, it's a rare occasion for the drink to just come with ice.

But a health expert has warned why you should never accept one thing from the bartender when you get given your beverage, and it's probably something we have all done hundreds of times.

According to Vicky Derosa, who took to TikTok to share her advice, you should always avoid the sorts of garnishes in the form of fruit.

So no lemons, limes, oranges - and the list goes on.

She went as far as to say she would 'never touch' a lemon that had been given to her in a bar, and there seems to be a legitimate reason for it.

Talking to her 410,000 followers, she said: "As a health professional and as someone who’s been studying health for over 40 years, there is one thing that I will never touch in a restaurant.

"Not in a restaurant, not in a bar, not anywhere unless I have purchased it, unless I have washed it, and unless I have sliced it.

"Lemon, lime, orange. Don’t do it."

Explaining further, she said: "Citrus is one of the dirties things. It has so many toxins.

"So when you get a glass of water, when you get a drink at a bar, tell them, "Please don’t put a lemon slice in it, please don't put a lime wedge. They're not washed."

She even claimed that restaurants could be lying to us when they say that their lemons are 'organic'.

The expert said: "How many restaurants really buy organic lemons anyway. I'm really compassionate, and I'm really kind... but I'm not sure I buy that one."

And users in the comments were quick to agree.

One said: "As a former waitress, I agree," as another claimed that upon being hospitalised, one of the first things they were asked by medical staff was if they 'put a lemon in [their] drink at a restaurant.'

And one even said they were hospitalised due to to contracting salmonella after eating in a restaurant, claiming that the first question the CDC asked them was if they 'put a lemon in [their] drink at a restaurant.'