Uncooked eggs

[natalie_1982]

If eggs that aren't cooked properly can cause salmonella (sp?), why and how do fitness freaks drink raw egg without getting ill?

[FelixtheDog]

It is because ppl who eat raw eggs use fresh eggs and usually consume them straight away

[natalie_1982]

But you'd still get the same chance of samonella by under cooking fresh eggs. I don't think many people would cook eggs that are out of date.

[EliPledge]

have a look at thsi link: http://www.mercola.com/2002/nov/13/eggs.htm

[New Forester]

So called "fresh" eggs bought in a shop are not that fresh at all, and could have been laid up to three weeks or so before. But eating raw eggs is really quite a small risk, and personally I wouldn't worry too much about it (even if I didn't eat our own laid-that-week eggs). You could be more likely to choke on it. How else can you make mayonnaise than with raw egg? Worry about it more if you're pregnant, ill, or elderly. If you buy eggs with the "new" lion mark on, they've been laid by hens vaccinated against Salmonella, and you're even safer. You can recognise a truly fresh egg because it will sink promptly in fresh water (if it just floats it's probably a week or so old). When broken the white will be in two parts, with a stiffish jelly around the yolk and the rest watery. The yolk will also sit up rounder and its membrane will be stronger.

[zgma]

I have a friend on a raw meat diet, and he says that the egg/meat-salmonella threat is much overstated. He told me about a sub-set of people on raw meat diets, who actually eat mostly ROTTEN meat (disgusting but true!) and who rarely get sick from it.

[Drewhound]

I don't think I'd got that far zgma but I do eat a raw egg every day in milk. These are fresh eggs from hens that are not vaccinated and I've never suffered any thing serious One way of looking at it is that if we never encounter germs and so on our bodies don't build up any resistance. I think Edwina Currie has a lot to answer for

[frizzytwig]

A friend of mine ate, well drank raw eggs every day for about a year until he was hospitalized with salmonella.

[zgma]

No, I don't go that far either Drewhound. I think the raw meat thing in general is pretty sketchy (though, inexplicably, I have no problem with raw fish - love it).

[Amy Chich]

it depends where you get your eggs from! if you are buying your eggs from people where you know how & where the chickens are kept then it should be fine! cheap eggs from battery farms are dodgy!