Egg white turns green

If you find that the egg whites you beat turn green when you are cooking eggs, do not eat them, because this means that the eggs have deteriorated. Eating them will definitely cause harm to your body. So try not to eat this kind of eggs. Even after cooking them, you cannot eat them. You must eat healthy eggs.

Two things may turn the egg white green.

The most common reason is that the eggs are improperly stored or exposed to external stimuli, causing them to deteriorate. These eggs are simply inedible.

Another possibility is that the egg is a fertilized egg. Green egg white may appear during embryonic development of the fertilized egg.

Experts specifically remind that the reason why egg white is green needs to be determined through experiments, and it is best not to eat it.

For internal use: Take raw, cooked, or mixed with medicinal juice.

For external use: Apply.

[Dos and Don’ts] "Compendium of Materia Medica for Dietary Therapy": It can cause agitation of the heart.

Do not eat too much.

[Selected Prescription] ① Treat Shaoyin disease, sores in the throat, inability to speak, and inability to make sounds: 14 pieces of Pinellia (washed and broken into pieces like date pits), 1 egg (open the hole and remove the yolk).

Put the pinellia tuber in bitter wine, add egg shells on the fire, boil it three times, and remove the dregs.

Swallow it in small amounts. If the condition does not improve, take three more doses.

(Bitter Wine Soup from Treatise on Febrile Diseases) ② For treating sudden red eyes due to heat poisoning: 1 fen of Rhizoma Coptis chinensis (pounded into paste), 1 fen of Coptis chinensis, and 1 egg white.

Take the above three ingredients, wrap two of them in cotton and put them in egg white. Soak overnight and apply it to the eyes four or five times. If the eye is thick, wash it off.

(Meng Shen's "Bixiao Fang") ③For treating children over one year old and under two years old with red and white dysentery that does not improve for a long time: two eggs (take the white part), two qian of Hu powder, and one liang of wax.

Add the above three ingredients, boil the wax until dissolved, add eggs and Hu powder, and wait for it to become a cake.

You can eat on an empty stomach during the day, three times a day.

(Meng Shen's "Bixiao Fang" Chicken Egg Biscuit) ④ Treat burns caused by hot water or fire, and painful skin and flesh ulcers: rinse with chicken powder or good wine.

(Haishan Fang) ⑤ Treats postpartum fainting, body spasms, upward pulling of the eyelids, corners of the mouth and outer canthus of the eye, and unconsciousness: take one egg, shell and separate it, mix with 2 qian of Nepeta powder and drink.

(Compendium of Materia Medica) ⑥ To treat postpartum blood retention: Take an egg, open it and take out the white part, add half the amount of strong vinegar to the white part, stir and swallow.

(Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica)