How many times you licked raw cookie dough off of the spoon when mom wasn't looking? Well it turns out mom was right to want to prevent you from eating raw cookie dough. Though according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it's not just the raw eggs that may carry harmful bacteria, but the whole shebang may carry food poisoning dangers, especially raw dough or batter. However cooking raw flour in some form by either boiling, baking, roasting, microwaving or frying kills threatening bacteria.
