What Are Fertile Eggs?

The result of hens and roosters mating, fertile eggs contain both male and female genetic material

Eating fertile eggs is a trend popular among Paleo and raw food followers who promote fertile eggs as being more nutritious than infertile eggs. However, there are actually no detectable chemical differences between fertile and infertile eggs, nor is there any scientific evidence that one is nutritionally superior to the other.

There is, however, some evidence that fertile eggs may spoil sooner than infertile eggs.