In relatively normal, disease-free conditions, it turns out that it’s okay to participate in this birthday ritual with friends and family, if you can stomach the thought of eating great grandma ...

Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto ...

Talk about a birthday buzzkill. Blowing out birthday candles causes an astronomical increase in bacteria covering the cake, a new study says. This is the latest discovery from the same food safety ...

The Germans also celebrated with birthday candles during Kinderfest, a birthday celebration for children in the 1700s. A single birthday candle was lit and placed on the cake to symbolize the ...

We like our cake sans germsWhen conducting a study on Food Myths in 2012, researchers at Clemson University found there to be a significant increase in bacteria on the cake once the candles had ...

On Facebook, Nicelybaked posted photos of a 4x2-inch "rice cake" complete with a lit candle on top. At first glance, it looks like the cup of rice with a candle on top, similar to that seen in photos ...

Maybe before the pandemic, the act of blowing out candles on a birthday cake seemed harmless enough. But with COVID-19 turning us all into a bunch of germaphobes (rightly so), it’s now ...

Experts say... A study found that blowing out birthday candles greatly increases the amount of bacteria on the cake's frosting. Nov. 29, 2017, 9:15 AM PST / Source: TODAY Katie Jackson ...