I knew raw food contains some bacteria, but five million bacteria per gram seems like a lot. In the same paragraph we talked about the global population of prokaryotes which amounted to approximately 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Yet, if they were all dry, they would only be enough to cover France for a depth of one metre. I tried to look for a more current estimate on the world population of prokaryotes, but everything related to the same study cited in the article. The study was conducted by William Whitman, David Coleman and William