Eggs have a lot of elements that are beneficial for the body such as proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. In children, nutritionists strongly suggest to frequently eat eggs in quantities sufficient for growth. Eggs are also recommended for pregnant and lactating women to meet their nutritional needs. Even eggs are needed for the sick or postoperative healing process.
There are many ways people consume as used in side dishes, dough food or be consumed raw or partially cooked. From research that has been done, the consumption of eggs are not mature will be more difficult to be digested by the body. Besides food products from poultry, including eggs very high risk of contamination by harmful microbes in the body. Some diseases caused by food from livestock is disease anthrax, typhus, tuberculosis, klostridiosis, and shigellosis.
According to epidemiological studies that there is a disease that most often affects humans due to the consumption of poultry products, especially eggs are typus, or more commonly known in the community with typhus / typhoid caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi. Symptoms such as abdominal pain, BAB hard or liquid, high heat until loss of consciousness.
The resulting contamination of eggs can occur directly or indirectly. Contamination occurs when an egg directly mendpat ungags direct contact with feces or contaminated waste bin when the eggs are laid in place that is not clean. Indirect contamination is when processing eggs that do not really like to let the raw egg open place is old or not stored at a temperature of 0-4 degrees Celsius. But the prolonged storage of up to more than 13 days can reduce levels of the protein in the egg. Naturally, the eggshell is a good deterrent contamination and able to maintain the quality of the eggs. But keep in mind that not all of eggshell able to protect the eggs from contamination. Eggshell has several layers to protect the eggs from contamination. However, some eggs were not perfect pembentukkannya, this layer will form increasingly thin and unable to resist contamination coming from the outside.
In order to avoid contamination, following the best tips on eating eggs:
Make sure the eggs really clean
Store in the refrigerator at a temperature of at least 4 degrees Celsius and consumed later than 20 days after the deposit
Cook eggs thoroughly (at least 7 minutes)
Immediately eat when they are cooked, do not let the immature eggs in the open more than 2 hours.
If you must eat boiled eggs, avoid consumption in children and the elderly, make sure cutlery, hand clean from contamination and be careful if there are symptoms of typhoid.
