For those who are eager to eat a piece of birthday cake, maybe they will have to think twice.
New evidence suggests that candle revival rituals can fill the candy with bacteria. A group of scholars from Clemson University, South Carolina, discovered that the sputum that sparks on candles increases the bacteria on the cake by 1,400 percent.
Dr Paul Dawson, a professor at the university, has headed the study with a group of students to think about food safety. "The idea I got from my daughter as we were talking at an ordinary dinner when explaining her to the project," says Dawn Despite the outcome of the study, Dr. Dawson says these data should not ruin the birthday parties.
"In my opinion you are good if you eat someone's birthday cake that has inflated the candles. I do not think you will get sick, "he explains. However, he does not deny that he would avoid eating someone's cake that he might have seemed tired, but otherwise there is no problem.
Nice.