{
  "id": 10387977,
  "title": "Is it true that … double-dipping food is unhygienic?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/is-it-true-that-double-dipping-food-is-unhygienic",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-28T07:00:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/28/is-it-true-that-double-dipping-food-is-unhygienic"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This practice does transmit mouth bacteria, but don’t panic Double-dipping means eating part of a piece of food and then putting it back into a communal dip – for example, biting a carrot and dipping it into shared hummus, or redipping a half-eaten tortilla chip in salsa. The concern is that bacteria from your mouth get transferred into the dip and could cause illness in the people you’re sharing…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}