Are eggs dairy?!
Are eggs dairy?
Me and my friends have been having this argument for a long time. I heard that dairy is anything that comes from animals thats not meat. But other people say dairy is only milk products. So which one's true?
Answers:
eggs are considered dairy products my aunt has worked at a chicken coup for years
eggs are in the meat and protien group
No eggs from Chickens and I guess that is what you are asking about are Fowl, Milk like from cows are dairy
Honest to God ...eggs are NOT a dairy product. The last time I encountered anything like this was when a health inspector tried to tell me butter was an egg product!
The inspector was "re-assigned."
No, I think eggs are from poultry...haha i think. Whatever the meat group is.
only milk products
eggs are protien
Yeah im pretty sure they are considered dairy products.
When I first began keeping "KOSHER", that was one of the very first questions we asked...and here's a great description (though very lengthly and wordy) about what eggs are considered:
http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askra...
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GOOD LUCK! I think this explains it all...depending on your "level of religion".
Before we discuss the subject of "eggs" it would first be imperative to understand first why chicken and dairy products are prohibited.
The Talmud says that when the Torah says "do not boil a kid in it's mother's milk," it is only referring to meat from the 3 kosher domesticated animals - cow, goat and sheep.
However, since people "intuitively" associate chicken as "meat," then it became the law as well not to mix chicken and milk. This view was accepted by the entire Jewish people as binding law about 1500 years ago.
The rabbinic prohibition of not eating poultry with dairy products is one of the many "fences around the Torah" that the Sages instituted. As the name "fence" suggests, the prohibition helps protect the Torah from being transgressed accidentally, and help people protect themselves from spiritual damage.
Furthermore, the 6-hour waiting period that applies between eating meat and milk products, likewise applies when one eats chicken.
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Now, regarding eggs... Eggs which were not laid and are found inside the chicken attached to the veins of the chicken, are forbidden to be eaten together with milk since they are still in the formation process and therefore considered like part of the chicken meat itself.
Hence, the rabbinic prohibition would apply even to the eggs.
If, however, the eggs were laid and are thus completely developed; they are not considered part of the chicken meat. Rather a complete egg is in fact considered an entity by itself and is not considered meat that can be confused with animal meat. Hence there the rabbinic prohibition would not apply here and it would be permissible to eat the egg with dairy products.
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SO, in a "nutshell", Eggs are neither dairy nor meat. They are considered "nutural". (Parve)
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http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askra...
Question
The idea that milk, which comes from a fleishich animal, would be dairy, seems easy to understand because of the Torah verse of not seething a kid in its mother's milk. But why are eggs pareve and not fleishich (meat)?
Answer
Before we discuss the subject of "eggs" it would first be imperative to understand first why chicken and dairy products are prohibited.
The Talmud says that when the Torah says "do not boil a kid in it's mother's milk," it is only referring to meat from the 3 kosher domesticated animals - cow, goat and sheep.
However, since people "intuitively" associate chicken as "meat," then it became the law as well not to mix chicken and milk. This view was accepted by the entire Jewish people as binding law about 1500 years ago.
The rabbinic prohibition of not eating poultry with dairy products is one of the many "fences around the Torah" that the Sages instituted. As the name "fence" suggests, the prohibition helps protect the Torah from being transgressed accidentally, and help people protect themselves from spiritual damage.
Furthermore, the 6-hour waiting period that applies between eating meat and milk products, likewise applies when one eats chicken.
Now, regarding eggs... Eggs which were not laid and are found inside the chicken attached to the veins of the chicken, are forbidden to be eaten together with milk since they are still in the formation process and therefore considered like part of the chicken meat itself. Hence, the rabbinic prohibition would apply even to the eggs.
If, however, the eggs were laid and are thus completely developed; they are not considered part of the chicken meat. Rather a complete egg is in fact considered an entity by itself and is not considered meat that can be confused with animal meat. Hence there the rabbinic prohibition would not apply here and it would be permissible to eat the egg with dairy products.
(Sources: Code of Jewish Law" Y.D. 87:1; 87:3; see "Shach" and "Taz"; and 87:5; "Pitchei Teshuva" 12 ad loc).
With blessings from Jerusalem,
Rabbi Shraga Simmons
Aish.com
OKAY, I hope I have not overwhelmed you, but you asked a very good question!
Good luck in your quest.
Eggs are not part of the dairy food group. Foods from the dairy food group consists of anything that has milk in it. For example, cheese, yogourt(i think thats how u spell it), and ice cream are all part of the dairy food group, but eggs are not!
yes check the food triangle thing
Seriously, dairy = derived from milk. Comes from dairy cows, goats, or sheep and formed into various products such as milk, cheese, yogurt, and butter. Now, has anyone heard of a dairy chicken? No, they're either called layers or broilers. Technically the egg is just a version of the amnionic sac in which a chicken embryo receives its nutrients from.