What's the little white thing when you crack an egg?!


Question:

What's the little white thing when you crack an egg?

Not the clear part or the yolk, there's a little white membrane -ish thing. Anyone know what that is?


Answers:
It is the chalaza
it keeps the yolk in the center of the egg shell

The Chalazae: As the egg goes down through the oviduct, it is continually rotating within the spiraling tube. This movement twists the structural fibers (called the chalazae), which form rope-like strands that anchor the yolk in the thick egg white. There are two chalazae anchoring each yolk, on opposite ends of the egg.

DE chicken. dead

Its the umbilical cord. Gross huh? Just don't think about it. :)

the egg white... if it is really the cord that is discusting and explain why it is called the egg white

i think that's plasma(I'm not sure)that the baby(unborned chicken)get it's food from it and it got a lots of calcium.




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