https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/flour-raw-food-and-other-safety-facts
https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/foods/no-raw-dough.html
Yes, people have gotten sick from Salmonella and E. coli from eating raw flour.
In a flour recall that happened in March 2023, 14 people got sick with 3 hospitalizations.
Here were some others:
- 2021, cake mix recall that led to 16 sick and 7 hospitalized
- 2019, flour recall that led to 21 sick and 3 hospitalizations
- 2016, flour recall that led to 63 sick and 17 hospitalizations
Flour is one of the top ten foods that cause illnesses (source).
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eating flour straight form the bag lol
Who the hell is rawdogging their flour??
A bit of raw flour dusting on my cake.
If that’s not love, I dont know what is
Why flour and not powder sugar?
For that genuine e coli taste.
I don’t know how people make cakes and cookies witbout eating it raw. It seems to be an american thing. Am I the only Australian eating cake batter and cookie dough?
As a kid I often got to lick the Mixmaster beaters when Mum was making biscuits or a cake.
Sounds like a USA problem.
Come to Germany, here you can even eat raw pork! It’s called Met and it’s delicous.
Nothing stops you eating raw pork here other than that pork used to be riddled with diseases in “ye good ole days,” and the fear still exists. You can buy it raw and eat it that way if you want.
Some creepy video appeared to me yesterday where a woman poured soda on raw pork and a bunch of worms emerged. Seen it?
