Eggs?

Frank Bullitt

i know they are packed full of protein and all that stuff but how many should you be eating a day?

at the mo i eat 4 but i have known people to eat nearly 10 a day!!:eek:

peterk19

i eat about ten most days but i only eat the whites

Pete

honeymonster

Is it not bad for yea to be eating that many? somethin to so with cholesterol?

LundiMardi

the yolks contain the cholesterol, hence why he only eats the whites.

yomchi

I'll eat ten, a ten egg ommlette is nice. 5 whites to 1 yellow. The body needs amall amounts of good cholesterol and saturated fat too!

Frank Bullitt

****,i eat 4 full ones,is that bad?

peterk19

Gintonious wrote:

****,i eat 4 full ones,is that bad?

depends on the persons lifestyle but they recomend you dont go over 2

abetarrush

holy crap, 4 eggs!

Ur gna die! :O

Black Swan

Egg are grand, but every day is too much, especially if you are getting on in age. You need more balance in your diet, eggs being only one source of nutrients.

imeddyhobbs

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Egg are grand, but every day is too much, especially if you are getting on in age. You need more balance in your diet, eggs being only one source of nutrients.

how old is getting on?

g'em

If you're 'cholesterol sensitive' there may be implications from eating too many eggs, but otherwise you should be fine to eat them daily. But if you are going to have a diet rich in eggs take care with the eggs you buy. Cheap, battery-hen eggs will have been fed a high-fat, low quality diet and the eggs they produce will also be low in quality. If possible buy organic and from a local farmer or from a farmers market where you can actually ask about the feed quality given to the hens.

An average egg has about 210mg of cholesterol and the American Council for Science and Health recommend up to 300mg/day. Can't find similar data for recommendations from European Councils. Many cholesterol problems stem from diets that are high in saturated fats, not high in cholesterol. And in fact eggs have a phospholipid called phosphatidylcholine which has been linked to rendering the cholesterol unabsorbable so much of the cholesterol is not taken up by the body. egg whites are literally nothing but water and protein so you could happily eat your body weight in them every day without worry. Half the eggs' protein is in the yolk, the other half in the white. And also in the yolk you get vitamin B-12, vitamin E, riboflavin, folic acid, tryptophan, selenium, iodine, phosphorous, calcium, zinc, iron, and essential fatty acids so the benefits greatly outweight cholesterol risks (which, as we've already established are negligible )

Basically? Eggs are all good

abetarrush

Yeah, my Dad had a heart problem from eatin to many eggs


but he still has one a day

but ive managed t get him t have porrige instead

gotta look after the thick's ticker

MicraBoy

Is it possible to buy the egg whites in carton like at EggNation

I don't think you can get them in Ireland. Jon may be you could look into supplying them in the shop?

Dragan

peterk19 wrote:

depends on the persons lifestyle but they recomend you dont go over 2

Who's they???

yomchi

MicraBoy wrote:

Is it possible to buy the egg whites in carton like at EggNation

I don't think you can get them in Ireland. Jon may be you could look into supplying them in the shop?

Yup, already on it. I was sitting watching hulk hogan on the tele one day and he pulled a large back of egg whites out of his gym bag.. I thought hmm..good idea! We're toying with the idea at the min, we'll also have good quality chicken breasts fairly soon hopefully.

MicraBoy

Yup, already on it. I was sitting watching hulk hogan on the tele one day and he pulled a large back of egg whites out of his gym bag.. I thought hmm..good idea! We're toying with the idea at the min, we'll also have good quality chicken breasts fairly soon hopefully.

Eggsellent!

Oh dear God.....I'll get my coat.

abetarrush

ye know, them

ruck-it

g'em wrote:

Cheap, battery-hen eggs will have been fed a high-fat, low quality diet and the eggs they produce will also be low in quality. If possible buy organic and from a local farmer or from a farmers market where you can actually ask about the feed quality given to the hens.

I use plain old free range eggs for the whites I use (about €1.90 for six) and then for the whole eggs I use I get the Omega 3 eggs - these are fed on flax seed and have a much better Omega 3:Omega 6 ratio. These cost probably about 20/30c more per six.

mikeruurds

Bump on this one Jon... I'd definitely be a customer if you started stocking egg whites in a carton.

Mike

daveirl

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Myksyk

To steal the Cadbury's creme egg question ... how do you eat yours? Are people eating raw egg whites and is this safe?