Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per the product's website, the Top It Cake Shield was initially inspired by research spearheaded by scientists at Clemson ...

Editor’s note: A recent experiment at Clemson University examined the potential spread of bacteria from people blowing out candles on birthday cakes. We all look forward to that one day a year when ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Maybe you should make another wish the next time you have birthday cake -- that your guests won't get sick. A new study says blowing out those candles on the birthday cake ...

Apparently, all those times you wondered if blowing out candles on a birthday cake was really sanitary, well, you were right to wonder. Turns out that blowing out candles can transfer an average of ...

Next time you blow out those birthday candles, make a wish that you don’t catch anything — because all that huffing and puffing increases the amount of bacteria on a cake by 1,400 percent, a new study ...

As a small child, I remember attending other children’s birthday parties at our local roller rink or McDonald’s and thinking, “Eww, I don’t want to eat that cake that some other kid essentially just ...

HOUSTON -- This might have you thinking twice about accepting a slice of birthday cake. A recent study by the Journal of Food Research confirms what you may already know: Blowing out birthday candles ...

Ah, birthdays: the best day of the year, when you get to spit all over a cake baked in your honor and force all of your closest friends to eat it with a smile on their faces. Then, a few months back ...

Just about everything has changed during the novel coronavirus pandemic, including the way that we celebrate birthdays; some are lucky to host intimate celebrations outside in a backyard or an empty ...