I’ve never tried those pre-colored **cooked eggs** you can buy in German supermarkets, but out of curiosity I bought one a while ago. Today I finally peeled it… and honestly, it looks a bit creepy 😅
The egg white itself is also colored, not just the shell. I always assumed the dye stayed on the outside, so seeing the color go *through* the shell and into the egg was unexpected.
Is this normal for these eggs?
Is it safe to eat? And how does the coloring penetrate the shell of a cooked egg? Has anyone else tried these or knows how they’re made?
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Yes, normal and safe to eat!
Completely safe to eat, altough these coloured eggs often stem from chicken farms that don’t really value the quality of life of their animals that much (‘Bodenhaltung’).
Here’s an article about it: [https://www.swr.de/leben/gesundheit/bunte-eier-102.html](https://www.swr.de/leben/gesundheit/bunte-eier-102.html)
They often look like that and yes, they’re safe to eat.
But one of the numerous reasons I would never buy those.
Yes
Yes this is normal, I never had one that wasn´t like this.
They use food safe dye so this can be eaten without problem.
Yes this is normal. It also happens when you color eggs at home yourself
It’s food coloring, so generally safe to eat.
yes, absolutely normal and perfectly safe to eat. I can’t explain why that is, but if you colour boiled eggs, the colour often goes through the shell.
The egg shell isn’t completely impenetrable. Stuff still gets through.
The dye for the eggs is food colouring. So it is absolutely safe to be eaten. The dye probably penetrates the shell after the egg has been cooked and lost its outer coating (the reason why unwashed eggs in the EU stay out of the fridge for weeks), but that is completely normal.
It’s food colouring and it is normal that some leaks inside. Egg shells aren’t perfectly sealed (afterall the chick needs to breath) and cooking and colouring also weakens the shell
Totally normal – enjoy!
More than safe. Why? Cause Europe, baby
Yes it’s normal
It’s edible, enjoy your traditional colored Christmas egg
In our supermarket, you can find colored eggs all year round.
The Eggs from egg coloring company Beham look like this very often, it’s save to eat. You should open a green one 🙂
Eat it
That also happens when you color eggs by yourself for easter. So as long as they use dye that‘s safe to eat, it‘s safe to eat.
the shell isn’t water- nor dyeproof, just resistant (*especially* after poking a hole in to prevent it from exploding during the boil). they use a very strong dye to get those vibrant colors, so some of it is gonna leech through.
if it wasn’t safe to eat, there’s be a GIANT warning on them about it. and yknow, any other dyed foods like candy contain *way* more of that stuff.
that said those chickens probably “lived” in the worst concentration camp environment ever, given they literally buy the cheapest bulk eggs possible for that so they can mark you up even more.
it’ll of course make it mould faster tho, so make sure to use them up quick. unlike normal raw eggs you buy here, the whole washing+boiling+dying process makes them way more perishable like flimsy murican eggs.
also gotta love the capitalism that led to easter eggs being the only egg available in your store at christmas :’D
Normal ☺️
That’s normal; eggshells aren’t 100% sealed. They have pores that allow the dye to seep through, sometimes even small cracks, and the dye can run in there, leaving colored spots on the egg. This is food coloring and is perfectly safe to eat.
yes
Yes! As long as the red egg isn’t green inside you’re fine
Safe to eat.
That is just the food-colouring that was used to paint the egg. Eggshells are not 100% sealed, because apparently tiny, growing Chicken need Oxygen too…
Yes ate them by the package Back when i was Bodybuilding
yes
Eggs have pores so that the chicken embryo/fetus can breathe. The oxygen gets in through the pores.