Egg is one of the staple breakfast item in many parts of the world but eggs have been given a quiet lot of hate lately particularity the egg yolk.So what exactly out with this delicious yellow center of egg? Should you stop eating egg yolks?
The main concern is the cholesterol,which for many years we have been told is bad for you and cause cardiovascular diseases.Egg whites contain exactly zero milligrams of cholesterol while egg yolks contain roughly 185 milligrams. when the media began to spread the news of “danger” of egg yolks due to its high cholesterol presence people started to avoid it. since the stigma wasn’t that the entire egg was bad for health the damage was done by just the yolk so the egg white craze took off!
The science had to backup actually backup about our voluptous egg yolk.So lets first understand cholesterol, it is carried through blood vessel in particles known as lipoproteins. low density lipoprotein(LDL) is the bad guy where is high density lipoprotein (HDL) is the good guy because they clear out LDL by taking them back to liver.Consuming egg yolks have shown increase in LDL but simultaneous increase in HDL.Also your body is good at adapting to how much cholesterol it needs.
So for those of you that already switched to eating only egg whites ,you are currently missing out on multitude of nutrients that egg yolks have then egg whites don’t of have very little such as calcium,iron,phosphorous,zinc,copper,manganese,vitamin b,k,5,6,9 and 12,omega-3 fatty acids.oh,one more,leucine i.e it is safe and healthy to eat eggs with egg yolk !
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