Is it okay to eat an egg that has a tiny red spot in it?!
Answers: i cracked open a raw egg and it had a tiny red spot in it. i threw it away. is it okay to eat?
It would be okay to eat it. It was a blood spot. I usually just pick them out.
I throw away but you can pick out the blood spot and eat.
yup...
It is perfectly okay to eat if you cook it. It's just blood from the chicken embryo. Gross, huh?
The egg has probably been fertilized, which is not a problem. In many countries, they eat eggs in which the embryo is quite developed--sometimes to the point of having tiny feathers (in the Philippines, this is called balut). There's really no taste difference, either, so....
If this was a store-bought egg the blood spot is from a broken follicle and happens before the shell is formed. Store-bought eggs are from hens that have never seen a rooster and therefore it is not from an embryo. If the eggs are from a local farm, there is the possibility that it is from an embryo. Either way it is safe to eat and it will not affect the flavor.
Even if it were a fully or partially formed embryo, if cooked properly, it is safe to eat. Western culture looks on this as "gross" but other cultures do not.
I think it means that the egg was fertilized. Eggs gross me out. That white slimy, boogery, cord-like thingy especially makes me want to hurl....
that only means the egg is fertilized. Nothing wrong with it. Cooking will clear up the red spot.