08/27/2025
📍 EGGCELLENT FACTS 🧐
⁉️ What are Those Spots in my Farm-Fresh Eggs? ⁉️
Store-bought eggs are all exactly the same size. The shells are all exactly the same shade of white, and the yolks are exactly the same (pale) shade of yellow.
🐔 Contrast that with a carton of farm-fresh eggs. 🐔
- Sometimes you’ll get a double-yolker…
- Sometimes the shells range from light brown, to dark brown, to the prettiest shade of aqua…
- Sometimes you’ll find a speck or two of sawdust on the shells
- Sometimes a single carton will contain a tiny little egg and a massive egg right next to each other.
- And sometimes, you’ll find a little brown spot floating on the yolk when you crack the shell.
Which brings us to the question–⁉️⁉️
What exactly ARE those little brown spots you sometimes find in eggs?⁉️⁉️
Those brownish or reddish specks you’ll occasionally find floating in your farm-fresh eggs are deemed “meat spots” or “blood spots.” Thankfully, they are not a cause for concern. Eggs with blood spots and meat spots are SAFE and FIT to eat.
And here is another interesting little tidbit– the presence of visible blood spots can actually mean the egg is fresh. As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh.
Perhaps another reason you don’t often see blood spots in store-bought cartons is because those eggs are usually several weeks old by the time they make it home to your refrigerator.
You see, eggs destined for the grocery store shelf are “candled” by a machine to check the inside for any defects– this is why you’ll rarely come across a meat spot in a store-bought egg. Backyard chicken owners can candle their eggs as well, but it’s not a necessity.
SOURCE
https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/
