5 Things You Should Know About Eggs
- 1| Rocky didn’t know what the hell he was doing. Besides the salmonella risk, downing eggs raw won’t provide as much fuel for muscle growth. Studies show that the protein in fully cooked eggs is 91% bio available, or ready to be used by the body. Raw eggs are only half as potent.
- 2| While a yolk carries all of an eggs, five grams of fat and 186 mg of cholesterol, it also packs about half the egg’s six grams of protein, as well as its payload of amino acids and vitamins A, B, D, E, and K. This is why many lifters opt for whole eggs plus added whites.
- 3 | Egg yolks contain choline, an essential nutrient that helps maintain brain-cell structure and neurotransmitters.
- 4| The spindly white fiber attached to the yolk is called the chalaza, which protects the yolk by keeping it suspended within the shell.
- 5 | There is absolutely no nutritional difference between brown eggs and white ones. Brown eggs are laid by hens with red earlobes, and white eggs are laid by hens with white earlobes. End of story.
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I just want to add to this. While I’m no expert, my mom has raised chickens all of her life, so I was raised around them too all of my life.
Fun tidbit: The darker the yolk is the better it is for you. And in my opinion it taste better. When the yolk is darker it means the chicken was fed properly and got plenty of fresh grass. These are usually from free-range chickens.
Compare a store bought egg to a free-range (or organic I guess, but I’m not sure thats really the same thing) chicken egg and the store bought egg with ALWAYS be the light yellow color. That is because the egg most likely came from a chicken in a small cage.
I love when people put the facts out there.
