Who here eats their egg yolks and who tosses ’em? Who eats raw and who cooks ’em? Why?
Did you know that whole eggs actually LOWER your cholesterol?
Yeah sure they’re full of cholesterol but dietary cholesterol is different to blood cholesterol. Just because you EAT cholesterol does not mean that you will increase your blood cholesterol levels. Same as just because you eat fat, you will not automatically become fat! Or if you eat protein you will not, all of a sudden, sprout muscles. It depends on the entire diet as well as how much work you put in for you to get muscley, not on how much protein you eat.
Egg yolks are packed full of essential nutrients such as Vitamin A, D, E, and K to name a few as well as the fact that only about a third of the fat in the yolk is saturated. Don’t freak out, you actually need a small amount of sat fat per day. But more importantly, this means that the other two thirds are HEALTHY fats, the kind that works to lower your cholesterol!
Obviously it all depends on the diet and lifestyle surrounding your yolk-eating. If you rarely exercise and you’re eating those whole eggs alongside 2L of coca cola and some greesey fry up fron the chippy then yeah, the eggs yolks will add to amount of overall fat that you’re ingesting and will have an adverse effect. But it is the same with everything!
Some people will remove the yolk simply to stay within their prescribed calorie or macronutrient levels as if you’ve already eaten all but 20 calories for your meals today, then have an egg white only as this is around 16cals whereas a whole egg is around 80 calories. Or if you’ve already met your fat intake requirements for the day then you would remove the yolk.
BONUS POINT: eat your eggs cooked if possible. I don’t say this for fear of getting ill or that I can’t stand the taste of raw eggs – actually quite like ’em. I say this because the protein in raw eggs is only about 40% biologically available compared to over 80% in cooked eggs. This means that your body is only capable of absorbing and utilising 40% of the protein that you ingest from a raw egg. So stop wasting eggs – eat the yolks and eat ’em cooked!
What’s your favourite way to eat eggs?
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