Yes, blowing candles on your birthday cake spreads bacteria


By AGENCY

Happy birthday, have some germs.

Turns out germophobes may be right about the whole “blowing out the candles” thing.

A recent study in the Journal Of Food Research found that blowing out the candles produces 1,400% more bacteria in cake icing than in icing not blown on.

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