Don’t forget to wash your eggs before cooking 煮雞蛋前，別忘了先水洗過！

Do you wash your eggs before cooking? A survey conducted by The John Tung Foundation revealed that 42% of respondents did not wash eggs before cooking them.

The food safety expert advises that washing eggs before cooking or buying washed eggs will prevent dirt from coming into contact with the yolk when they are cracked open.

However, eggs should not be washed before putting them into refrigerators. You just need to wipe off the egg surface with a dry cloth and separate the eggs from other foods before putting them into the refrigerator.

友善讓你懂｜解說：

你在煮雞蛋前，會先清洗過雞蛋嗎？根據台灣董事基金會的一項調查指出，有高達42%受訪者在煮雞蛋前並不會先洗過。

食品安全專家建議，應該在烹飪雞蛋前先清洗過，或是購買洗選蛋，這樣可以避免敲開雞蛋時污染物接觸到蛋黃。

不過，買來的雞蛋在放進冰箱前不需先清洗，只要用乾抹布擦拭一下雞蛋外殼表面，並把雞蛋與其他食物分開存放冰箱就可以了。

輕鬆帶著走｜學習：

wipe sth off sth 指的是「把⋯⋯抹掉或、除掉或刪掉」，在本文中指的是具體地把蛋殼上的髒污抹除，但也可以用來形容抽象事物，例如：股票中世界裡的金額蒸發，或是電腦世界裡的資料刪掉。

例句：
All the data collected for over a decade was wiped off the computer by a virus. 搜集了超過十年的數據，都被病毒從電腦中刪光光了。

本篇其他相關單字，介紹如下：

1. survey (n.) 調查、民意調查
2. respondent (n.) 受訪者，本文指接受調查的民眾
3. washed eggs (n.) 洗選蛋
4. yolk (n.) 蛋黃
5. cracked (adj.) 裂開