In 2017, a widely circulated study (unappetizingly titled Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake) revealed that “blowing out the candles over the icing surface ...

Blowing out birthday candles is an age-old tradition, but it's something that's more likely to make people cringe than cheer in the age of COVID-19. Thanks to the pandemic, we've all become a lot ...

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a birthday cake may look lovely, but apparently blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects, researchers say. A study in the Journal of ...

To Mark Apelt it felt gross to blow on a cake that everyone eats. He created Blowzee. Kids blow into the kazoo-looking tool and it activates the fan which blows out the candles.

We Should Blow Out Birthday Candles Forever. By Stephen Douglas | Aug 4, 2020. Not in 2020. / PASCAL LACHENAUD/Getty Images. My son just celebrated his third birthday last weekend.

A new study says blowing out those candles on the birthday cake spreads not only thousands of tiny drops of saliva, but each aerosol drop carries with it a host of germs that can make you sick.

The candles have a short, fast-burning wick, which lasts just long enough to sing "Happy Birthday to You" twice ("Birthday song: 22 seconds. Candle burn time: 55 seconds," the box helpfully notes).

A mother has sparked a debate after she gave her other children the opportunity to blow out her daughter’s birthday candles. Earlier this month, mother of four and vlogger Cecily Bauchmann took ...

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 ...

An adorable Golden Retriever blowing out his own candles on his birthday cake has gone viral on TikTok with over 420,000 views.. In the video, Beau the golden boy can be seen sitting in front of a ...

Researchers have even tested the potential spread of bacteria from blowing out birthday candles. In a 2017 study , researchers spread icing on a sheet of foil, which was layered over a styrofoam ...

A mother has sparked a debate after she gave her other children the opportunity to blow out her daughter’s birthday candles.. Earlier this month, mother of four and vlogger Cecily Bauchmann took ...