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