Is it safe to eat packaged cookie dough?

Question

I don't care - I will mix some up with real eggs just to eat it raw. But my girlfriend's mom freaks out, and she won't even let her eat it from a package. I was pretty sure the eggs were pasteurized. Is it safe?

But you can't get salmonella from pasteurized eggs, and that is what they use.

Answer 1

Yes, you should be able to eat it without dying!
My kids eat it all the time. They'd rather eat it out of the tube than baked. They're still alive and doing quite well.

Answer 2

Yes. I have done it al my life...its the greatest. The only cookie dough thats not that safe is the kind you make at home because it has real raw eggs. If it was unsafe to eat raw it would say so on the packaging. Do you think that if it was unsafe pregnant ladies would stay away from it??? My friends all ate it during there pregnancies...and I even have a package ten feet away from me right now. It doesnt say anything about not eating it raw.

Answer 3

Packaged cookie dough, like in the tube and you just slice them up? Cuz that's safe. Adding raw eggs can potentially give you salmonella, though.

Answer 4

I do it all the time

RAW EGG WARNING
Food Network Kitchens suggest caution in consuming raw and lightly-cooked eggs due to the slight risk of Salmonella or other food-borne illness. To reduce this risk, we recommend you use only fresh, properly-refrigerated, clean, grade A or AA eggs with intact shells, and avoid contact between the yolks or whites and the shell.

Answer 5

well i have before but only in small amounts i would not make a habit out of it considering that the egg in it can give u salmonella poisoning because it is not cooked. and by the way ben and jerries makes chocolate cookie dough ice cream but it is safe and u can enjoy nice SAFE cookie dough out of that

Answer 6

You know there is such a flavor of commercially produced ice-cream as "cookie dough" -- cookie dough ice cream (with cookie dough bits in it) must have uncooked cookie dough, or they wouldn't call it cookie "dough", they wouold call it cookie "bits".
Don't you believe that such commercial products are tested before they are marketed. Don't you believe that if it was unsafe the FDA would have pulled such products from the market - or prevented them from being marketed in the first place.

If it can be mixed into a commercial product, regulated by the FDA, doesn't that suggest that it is safe to eat?

Answer 7

Bob, I sit down right here in disbelief. I undergo in thoughts at the same time as i replaced right into a teenager, and that replaced into many, many moons in the past, we used to lick the bowls or the beaters. i'd prefer to understand what authentic recordings has there been on Salmonella infections from eating cookie dough. Please record your authentic source.

Answer 8

Look at the ingredients list, it probably contains eggs. Eating raw eggs is never safe.

Answer 9

I think so I've always ate "raw cookie dough" I am still doing fine. I don't eat very much at a time though.

Answer 10

Instead of asking us, why not read the package or call the toll-free number on the package or visit the website address on the package? I think the company could give you more reliable info than Yahoo!