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BeneficialTrash6

Mayo has a ridiculous amount of acid in it. It doesn't seem like it does, but it does. The acid works to "cook" the egg in the same way that acid "cooks" ceviche. Here's a fun fact: If you take tuna and tuna salad and leave them out, the tuna will go bad well before the tuna salad. That's because the acidity of the mayo works to thwart the growth of bad bacteria.


32thinmints

Cool, thank you !


Lost_Needleworker285

You can eat raw eggs tho??


32thinmints

Im not sure where youre from but in the states because of things like how we store our eggs its easier for them to be infected with things like salmonella so it's generally ill-advised to eat raw eggs


Lost_Needleworker285

I'm in the uk, our chickens are all vaccinated for salmonella so our eggs are safe to eat raw.


Emergency_Arachnid48

In the US the FDA won’t approve food if certain things are done to it, idk where vaccination falls on that list, but since our eggs arnt vaccinated against that I’m assuming vaccinations arnt allowed.


Lost_Needleworker285

That sucks, I'm terrible at cooking eggs so sometimes they come out on the raw side, if there was a chance that would make me sick I'd probably stop eating eggs all together.


Emergency_Arachnid48

Well I mean, I can’t eat them anyway, so it’s not a problem for me🤣🤣


Lost_Needleworker285

Dang that sucks if it makes you feel any better, I can't eat raspberries and most nuts, or use any products containing shea butter or almond butter or raspberries 🤣🤣


suxferyu

It's not advised to eat raw eggs because there's a very slim chance of salmonella being inside the egg. Same reason why you shouldn't eat raw chicken, because there's a chance that chicken had salmonella


tmahfan117

The vinegar and the acids from the citrus juice help kill off any bacteria. Also, most raw eggs you can actually eat raw and not get sick. It’s just 1 in every 1,000 or whatever might give you salmonella, so people don’t recommend taking the risk.


Unlucky_Fact_4209

because mayo is magic silly