Eggs with Blood Spots: Fact Check It’s breakfast time and you are about to make your morning time delicious with a tasty egg dish. You break the egg into a bowl and wait, what? “There is a blood spot in it, how come?”, “Ohh, what do I do now?”, “Should I throw it away or are they safe to consume?”, “I am seeing this for the first time!” Hold on! Don’t panic. Take out a few minutes to read this article to know why this occurs and if they are safe to eat or not. Why do they occur? Blood spots may occur either on egg yolks or egg whites. On the egg yolks, they occur because of the rupturing of the small blood vessels present in the ovaries during the egg-laying process. And they occur on the egg white when bleeding happens after the egg is released into the oviduct. So basically it is quite a natural phenomenon. How frequent is their occurrence? Coming across a blood spot is a rare phenomenon. It is such rare that the frequency of its occurrence in the aver