Fresh eggs & brown bits??

[sharon54]

When I crack eggs into a bowl, I always remove the little brown specks that are in them, but please can anyone tell me what these brown bits are?

Thank you

[Jugglering]

Apparently they are due to the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface during formation of the egg - not a fertilised egg, which is what i was told as a child ! There's more info here

[tiger104]

Hi Sharon54

I cook all the time there is nothing wrong with eggs that have those bits and bobs in.. no need to worry, there are natural fragments in eggs that are harmless to us, I use 100's like that,

Use them with ease !

Unless there half an un-incubated chick .......
Shel

[sharon54]

Thank you Jugglering and Tiger, the link was really interesting.
The spots aren't really blood spots, although I've had these from time to time, but more like a little bit of brown seed, which feels quite gritty. This is in every egg I've ever cracked, so I know it must be normal, but just wondered exactly what it was :-)

[Neilzulu1]

once i cracked an egg and it was just full of blood,never touched one since..........................