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Re: comment about eating raw cookie dough

Hello...My children can eat our raw cookie dough if they want because
we do not use eggs.  We use Egg Replacer which contains no eggs or
animal products.  We can also lick the beaters when making cakes.

Bye...Elizabeth

> Someone more in the know might have some corrections to what I'm
> saying here so please feel free to jump in.
>
> I think that the might be some health hazards (other than the usual
> tummy ache) from eating raw cookie dough that contains unpasteurized
> raw egg products. (I think that most of the non fatfree kinds that get
> sold in the dairy case are made with pasteurized eggs.)
>
> I think that most of the liquid egg replacers (many of which are
> tinted egg whites plus some other stuff) have been treated to make
> them safe but if you are separating your own eggs, I'm not sure how
> healthy it is to just plan on eating large quantities of the raw [or
> frozen raw] dough.
>
> jayne