What is a "hairy egg"?

Hairy eggs are also called king eggs, eggs and hairy eggs. Fujian is called egg embryo, while Jiangsu and Zhejiang are called Wang Egg or Xi Egg. Hairy eggs are immature chickens, which are affected by improper temperature, humidity or some germs during the incubation process, leading to the stop of chicken embryo development and death in the eggshell.

Hairy eggs are different from live beads. Hairy eggs are eggs that fail to hatch, and live beads are eggs that hatch for about 12 days. The taste of the two is also very different. Live beads are more delicious and have higher nutritional value.

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The misunderstanding of eating eggs:

1, pregnant women should eat more eggs. It is a custom for lying-in women to eat a lot of eggs when they are in confinement, but it is no longer applicable today when food is abundant. Maternal women should ensure the diversity of food, besides eating one or two eggs a day, they should also eat meat, milk, beans, grains, fruits and vegetables to achieve a balanced diet.

2. Hairy eggs are tonics. Hairy eggs, or "stillborn eggs", are half-hatched embryos and are often eaten as tonics in many areas. In fact, the nutritional value of hairy eggs is not high, and they often contain many pathogenic bacteria.

Reference source; People's Daily Online-Five Mistakes in Eating Eggs: Hairy eggs contain pathogenic bacteria (Figure)

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