People always freak out about eating raw cookie dough for fear of salmonella due to the raw eggs.
Yet raw egg whites have been a common ingredient in fancy cocktails for ages and its never been questioned or regarded as dangerous.
What gives?
In: Biology
The danger from eating raw cookie dough is from the flour, not necessarily the eggs. Raw flower can have ecoli and dangerous bacteria in it, since it’s just ground up grains and is not cooked or otherwise processed.
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