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by the-chitmonger 575 days ago
I'm nowhere near an expert on this subject, but I've heard that E. coli can be a serious issue with uncooked flour. Not sure if anyone else was concerned about these flour nano-noodles touching wounds (as they're not cooked, per se), but from what I can tell, these noodles are only 372 nm wide[0] while E. coli is something on the order of 2,000 nm (2 micrometers) in length[1]. It could also be that the electrospinning process separates these threads from any contaminants(?) I'd love to hear someone with more familiarity on the subject give their take.

[0]: TFA - https://phys.org/news/2024-11-chemists-world-thinnest-spaghe... [1]: https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria/Diversity-of-str...