Julie Garden-Robinson, NDSU Extension food and nutrition specialist
Prairie Fare: Before licking the spoon, consider facts about flour and oatmeal
Wash your hands before and after handling raw flour. (Pixabay photo)
“I thought that eggs were the problem in raw cookie dough!” someone exclaimed to me after a webinar. “Now the flour can make us sick?”
“Yes, we have to be careful with flour,” I replied. “Flour is a raw commodity, and some outbreaks have occurred due to Salmonella and E. coli bacteria in uncooked food containing flour.”
Eating raw cookie dough is not advised for safety reasons, with an exception.
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