Hollandaise sauce

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Just had eggs benedict with hollandaise sauce and googled after and seen you mustn't eat when pregnant?!

Confused as I thought the rules had now changed for raw egg? Worried now 😖

Was it homemade or from a jar?

They have, check the date on the info your reading x

The rules changed earlier this year, I’ve been eating this at restaurants and have no ill effects. If I’m worried, I just check the eggs are lion stamped with the waitress.
I only use the NHS website to check against, others have such varying information

Thanks all - I'm not sure if from jar or homemade. Probably made from scratch - it was in a nice cafe/restaurant. Have now left the area so cannot check if eggs lion stamped.

Feeling sick now but I think it's because I'm worrying about it!

You will be absolutely fine. The fear surrounding eggs is because of very old cases of salmonella. You're much much more likely to get salmonella from undercooked meat than even raw eggs. Chances are, the cafe will have been using lion stamped eggs. They nearly all tend to be now.

If you are in the U.K. then the eggs will very likely have been lion stamped, and NHS advise that these can be eaten runny in pregnancy.

But even if not, hollandaise is cooked. It’s not like eating raw eggs in mayonnaise. It will almost certainly be absolutely fine.

Now I have a hankering for eggs benedict!

And yes, don’t be panicked by varying info from elsewhere in the world. The U.K. is relatively unusual in routinely vaccinating hens against salmonella.

Thank you all for the reassurance. I've not had any ill effects since, so prob was me overthinking causing my sickyness!

I've been eating my weight in hollondaise sauce the last few months both fresh and jarred.
I'm 32 weeks pregnant.

Please don't panic about these kinds of foods -- the advice is always changing and not set in stone, and the risks are very small anyway.