Spoiler alert.
If you are already elbow-deep in holiday cake and cookie batter, you may just want to take your chances and stop reading here.
But to become wiser and safer, though indisputably annoyed, step away from that bowl and read on.
Tasting uncooked foods made with flour can make you dangerously ill, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The report, which recounts the detective work that led to a recall of more than 10 million pounds of flour in the summer of 2016, confirms that a type of E. coli bacteria previously discovered lurking in wet environments like hamburger meat and leafy vegetables can also thrive in arid hosts.
