how does raw egg give you salmonella, but you can eat a whole raw egg and be fine

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how does raw egg give you salmonella, but you can eat a whole raw egg and be fine

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Not all raw eggs contain salmonella, but if you eat one that does you’ll get sick.

The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1 in every 20,000 eggs are contaminated with Salmonella.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Some eggs contain salmonella, not all. It’s like 2% or 20% or something like that. So anytime you eat a raw egg you run the risk of salmonella poisoning.

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1 : 20000 to 1:10000 have salmonella.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Raw egg *can* be contaminated with salmonella. Cooking kills salmonella. Therefore, the risk of contracting salmonella from eating raw egg is much higher versus eating cooked egg. However, the *probability* of contracting salmonella after eating any particular raw egg is still quite low, just not as low as it would be had you cooked the egg.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Not every egg is infected with salmonella. It depends on your luck and also how well stuff is kept clean.

In any processed food with raw eggs, there may be more opportunities for the salmonella to be introduced because the various processing steps involved. (each egg might have a 0.001% chance of salmonella but in a factory, they might mix in batches of 10,000 eggs at a time, so that has a high chance of spreading it)

Anonymous 0 Comments

Salmonella is a bacteria that makes you sick. In developed countries, there is a lot of effort to keep it out of the food, and 99.9% of the raw eggs will not have it. But system fails sometimes, so there is a small chance that raw egg will have it. More so if you get eggs from somebody keeping chickens in their backyard rather than a properly licensed and inspected farm.

So if you eat raw eggs, you run a small risk of getting salmonella, as well as other infections that could come in eggs. If you do it all the time, you increase chances of getting it eventually.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Short answer is you aren’t fine.

If I remember my training there is something like a 1 in 10,000 chance that your egg has salmonella if you buy it from the store. Less if you buy pasteurized eggs, more if you get them from a farm. And that salmonella is on the outside of the shell. But cracking it will infect the inside.

I’m guessing when you say “whole” you are talking about those manly man movies where they crack a raw egg into their beer for breakfast. They have that chance of salmonella. But it’s not a big chance. People who say don’t eat raw or undercooked eggs are just trying to take the chances from 1 in many, to 0.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s a game of odds/numbers basically— the CDC estimates one in every 20k eggs is salmonella contaminated.

It’s perfectly possible for you to have eaten several raw ones and had no negative consequences, but that doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen or that other people haven’t gotten salmonella that way before. I’ve gotten brutally sick off improperly cooked eggs before so I would advise from experience to err on the side of caution

There’s mitigation measures such as the FDA requiring eggs to be washed off so salmonella won’t be a risk from handling the shells, but in certain cases the hens might be infected themselves and the bacteria will persist on the inside of the egg. There’s also ones you can buy that are pasteurized to even further reduce the risk of getting sick. Keeping the eggs adequately refrigerated and not subjecting it to temperature abuse also helps.

It isn’t always a guarantee though that if you get a contaminated one that consuming said infected raw egg will get you ill— sometimes one’s individual gut flora and immune system can prevent salmonella proliferating in your guts if you only consume a small amount of the pathogen. If an infected egg goes into your cookie batter and you only take a tiny taste you very well could be fine. It’s a combination of different factors that play into whether you get sick or not, pretty much.

Anonymous 0 Comments

When are you eating whole raw eggs and why?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Not all eggs contain Salmonella.

Its also worth noting that if you live in an actual 1st world country(read not ‘murica) its impossible to get salmonella from eggs at all. The chickens are all vaccinated against salmonella.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Chicken meat and eggs only have salmonella if the chicken had salmonella. Places where it is safe to eat raw eggs screen systematically for salmonella, have strict controls and hygiene.

I know that all Finnish eggs are safe to eat raw, because I know the process behind testing and tracking behind them.

You can get salmonella from anything really, any fecal-oral pathway can expose you to it. But with constant control of sources of this, it can be prevented. There is a massive industrial level systematic handling of this problem in many nations. You know if you live in one from the simple fact that raw egg is safe, because that is the hardest product to keep safe. Some places do ammonia and bleach washing of eggs to deal with this issue, however this also means that the eggs spoil quicker even in a fridge.