Raw eggs and salmonella?

[Eric Shaw]

I thought it was dangerous to eat raw eggs for fear of salmonella? I understand these are local farm raised, but how does that change the potential of having salmonella? I get that it might make it less, since its not from an industrial farm, but how can you still be sure? After all a bacteria is a bacteria and can appear anywhere any time regardless of organic or not. What am I missing here?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWyzTXw_ns

[Cory McCarthy]

I thought it was dangerous to eat raw eggs for fear of salmonella? I understand these are local farm raised, but how does that change the potential of having salmonella? I get that it might make it less, since its not from an industrial farm, but how can you still be sure? After all a bacteria is a bacteria and can appear anywhere any time regardless of organic or not. What am I missing here?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWyzTXw_ns

It is not just the risk of salmonella, raw eggs contain avidin (which cooks out), and avidin binds the biotin, so it cannot be absorbed.  Essentially, raw eggs inhibit nutrient absorption as well.Cory

[Eric Shaw]

I thought it was dangerous to eat raw eggs for fear of salmonella? I understand these are local farm raised, but how does that change the potential of having salmonella? I get that it might make it less, since its not from an industrial farm, but how can you still be sure? After all a bacteria is a bacteria and can appear anywhere any time regardless of organic or not. What am I missing here?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWyzTXw_ns

It is not just the risk of salmonella, raw eggs contain avidin (which cooks out), and avidin binds the biotin, so it cannot be absorbed.  Essentially, raw eggs inhibit nutrient absorption as well.Cory

Thanks Cory, I actually new about the blocking of the nutrient issue, but could not remember the name of the nutrient nor how it was blocked. Thanks for reminding me. I used to drink pasteurized raw egg whites with my shakes in the morning years ago and a Dr. on BB.com told me about the biotin issue which I then stopped. Wonder why Dr. Mercola doesn't seem to mind this issue, I respect a lot of his other opinions and he seems to agree with most of the tenets of growing body of science supporting a lot of what we talk about here. Id love to hear his opinon on this. Maybe he feels that it is a small trade off for the other benefits? Maybe it only blocks the absorption of biotin from that specific meal and gets made up from subsequent meals, hence tradeoff? i find it hard to believe he would be completley ignorant of this debate.

[Fairy]

It only blocks a little bit of biotin. Really not a big deal, you can just supplement with it if you're worried. And as for salmonella... You're probably more likely to die of a bee sting.

[Brandon D Christ]

Cook your eggs.  The protein is much more bioavailable.  You can eat raw eggs for the purpose of flavor/texture in certain dishes, but if you are making a meal out of eggs, cook them.The Salmonella is probably only a concern with factory chickens.  If you know the farmer that you are getting the eggs from and they aren't subject to the unsanitary conditions, Salmonella won't be a concern as much.

[Tiago Nicolau]

Now i remember all the raw egg whites i used to sip in,God i wish i had someone to tell me not to do that before doing it for half an year :/

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