raw pasta

[devil monkey]

can you eat raw pasta with no ill effects

[welshfox]

When I was in my early teens, I went through a phase where I ate raw spaghetti all the time to stop me from etaing chewing gum and had no probs that I can remember.
I wouldnt advise it be your staple diet though! And it gets stuck in your teeth a lot and cuts your gums a bit x

[masterchef]

If you mean raw fresh pasta I wouldn't recommend it as it has lots of raw eggs in it.

[welshfox]

oh yeah, sorry, forgot to mention the pasta i ate was dried - good call masterchef!

[devil monkey]

thanks for your answers. just one problem i'm 13 and i'm not that sure what you mean by fresh pasta and dried pasta. is fresh when it's been cooked before and dried when it's in packets? thanks again

[lafrancaise]

Fresh is what you buy in packets in the fridges and dried is what you buy in boxes and when you shake the box it makes a noise!!!!!
Quite honestly, I wouldn't eat either raw; the first because of the raw egg content , the second because it would need to absorb a lot of moisture from the body to digest it.
On top of that, raw fresh or dried pasta doesn't taste nice!