How Much Protein In An Egg & Should The Yolk Be Discarded?

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How Much Protein In An Egg & Should The Yolk Be Discarded?
Throw Away Those Egg Yolks, The Most Nutritious Part of The Egg. REALLY?

Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on the planet.

Just think about the fact that the nutrients in a whole egg contain all the building blocks needed to turn a single fertilized cell into an entire baby chicken and yet we're told this part of the egg is no good for us. Why do they say that? Because egg yolks also happen to be high in cholesterol.

Because egg yolks are high in cholesterol, people believed that they would raise cholesterol in the blood. For this reason, mainstream nutrition professionals often recommend that we limit our egg consumption to 2-6 whole eggs per week.

However, eggs have gotten a bad reputation because the yolks are high in cholesterol. In fact, a single medium sized egg contains 186 mg of cholesterol, which is 62 % of the recommended daily intake. People believed that if you ate cholesterol, that it would raise cholesterol in the blood and contribute to heart disease. But it turns out that it isn't that simple. The more you eat of cholesterol, the less your body produces instead.

Most of them say we can eat more eggs than that as long as we make sure to throw away the yolks. This is pretty much the worst thing you could do, because the yolks contain almost all the nutrients. The whites are mostly just protein.

Many studies have looked at whole egg consumption and blood cholesterol in 70 % of people, eggs have no effect on cholesterol levels. In the other 30 % (termed hyper-responders), egg yolks raise HDL (the good) cholesterol and turn the LDL particles into the large, fluffy kind ... which is not harmful.

In fact, many studies, some of which included hundreds of thousands of people, have looked at whole egg consumption and the risk of heart disease in healthy people and found no association between the two.

Additionally, let's not forget that eggs have many amazing benefits.

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