Is It Safe to Eat Colorful Painted Easter Eggs? Check out the Explanation
Easter egg illustration. Is it safe to eat Easter eggs? colored? (Source: unsplash.com/Bee Felten-Leidel) Author : FIQIH RAHMAWATI | Editor : EDY A. PUTRA
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV – Every Easter celebration, Easter eggs become one most frequently encountered.
Decorating and eating boiled eggs is a tradition that originated in the East Central which spread to Eastern Europe until it was adapted by the Church Orthodox.
In the 1870s, Easter eggs were changed to chocolate egg-shaped. This chocolate is decorated and colored. Nevertheless, not a few still use decorated or colored eggs to celebrate Easter.
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Not as decoration, Easter eggs have meaning for people Christianity, namely as a symbol of rebirth.
Easter eggs are not made from plastic eggs, but real eggs. So, is it safe to eat colorfully painted Easter eggs?
There are several things to note. Launching Taste of Home , Saturday (4/16/2022), be sure to boil the Easter eggs until they are cooked.
Boiling eggs until cooked can reduce the chance of exposure bacteria, including salmonella.
Also, make sure the paint used to decorate the Easter eggs safe to eat. You can use food coloring when decorate eggs.
Thus, there will be no harmful substances or chemicals that will seep into the egg or come into contact with other food in the dining table.