Egg Yolks Fat
30th March 2016The yolks are where it’s at if you’re looking to up your intake of vitamins A, B12, and D, as well as your daily calcium, folate, and omega-3s.
Have you heard the crazy news? I eat raw egg yolks every day. Think I’m nuts? Well, that’s debatable, but I do have good reasons for eating my yolks raw and
Grace, Thank you for documenting the benefits of eating the whole egg. I cringe when I hear people say they throw away the egg yolk! But as a retired dietitian who has changed her tune about fats, I take exception to your cautions about saturated fat.
Protein & Other Nutrients in an Egg. A combination of amino acids, some of which are called essential because the human body needs them from the diet because it can’t synthesize them.
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The yolk makes up about 33% of the liquid weight of the egg; it contains about 60 Calories, three times the energy content of the egg white. The yolk of one large egg (56.7 g total, 17.6 g yolk) contains around 2.8 g protein, 191 mg cholesterol, 0.63 g carbohydrates, and 4.66 g total fat.
Eat your yolks, folks. They have fat, cholesterol and a ton of good nutrients that you just don’t get from egg whites.
Eggs are a nutritional powerhouse, but for a while, egg yolks have been demonized in the health-food industry as causing blood-cholesterol levels to skyrocket. Is it true?
Even the protein in egg whites isn’t as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available.
Egg shell color is caused by pigment deposition during egg formation in the oviduct and can vary according to species and breed, from the more common white or brown to pink or speckled blue-green.