First the egg lover quite shocked by the discovery of the experts which show that the eggs can be harmful to heart health because they contain high cholesterol. Now, health experts have found that the egg is the cause of food poisoning in many people as reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association, which is reinforced by the results of the research Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, United States.
Of the various cases that occurred between January 1985 until May 1987, a joint team of US health experts ensure that the country's high level of poisoning are caused by Salmonella bacteria group. Dr. WA Volk of the medical faculty of University of Virginia and Dr. MF Wheeler from The State University of New Jersey said that the intestines of birds is one of the main storage of these bacteria. How do these bacteria get into the egg is not known with certainty.
However, some experts established two presumptions to explain the above. First, it is estimated that the bacteria is present in all the chickens or ducks. Later, these bacteria will penetrate the skin and lodged in the egg. Penetration process will be easier if the eggshell is cracked due to the nesting process.
Second, the team of experts also estimated that the bacteria not only enter through the skin. They suspect that the bacteria had entered the egg before the skin is formed. If we eat raw or partially cooked eggs containing these bacteria, there will be poisoning cause symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps, how these bacteria cause diarrhea, remained an enigma until the 1980s late when Dr. Johnny Peterson of the University of Texas and his colleagues found that Salmonella enterotoxin produce toxins that resemble cholera toxin.
There are two reasons why this secret for a long time shrouded. The first is a toxin produced by the bacteria are very small. Second, because the toxin is stored both in bacteria and will come out easily only if the bacteria are broken. Once entered in our digestive tract, the bacteria will be broken because of the conditions and processes of digestion, and the poison will be released into the stomach and poison our bodies.
There is one important issue which was also found by the experts is that the heat can cripple the power of the poison. This means that the poisoning caused by this bacterium can be avoided by cooking eggs until completely cooked. Therefore, in cooking the egg, see that the eggs be inverted so that the second surface portion ripe.
Avoid eating half-cooked egg especially uncooked. Seek order eggs to be eaten boiling been boiled for at least seven minutes. Eggs are a complete protein source. Therefore, make sure that the eggs you eat are not catastrophic. Do not forget that half-cooked egg is an egg that half is safe, especially eggs that are not cooked at all.