The Healthy Egg

Why can't you tease egg whites?
Because they can't take a yolk!
How did the egg get up the mountain?
It scrambled up

All hilarious jokes aside the egg has some huge benefits for such an affordable and easy to use food.

Eggs are one of the few foods categorised as a 'superfood' due to their nutrition on many different levels. A single large boiled egg contains:

• Vitamin A: 6% of the RDA.
• Folate: 5% of the RDA.
• Vitamin B5: 7% of the RDA.
• Vitamin B12: 9% of the RDA.
• Vitamin B2: 15% of the RDA.
• Phosphorus: 9% of the RDA.
• Selenium: 22% of the RDA.
• Eggs also contain decent amounts of Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Calcium and Zinc.

They also have 77 calories, 6  6 grams of protein and 5 grams of healthy fats.

So its clearly good shit.

There is some people who say that you can't have too many eggs for cholestoral reasons, studies have shown that up to three eggs a day is perfectly safe. Also for any women who are going to megafit or crossfit or any of that craic, make sure your eating eggs because they keep you full for a long period of time. In one study of 30 overweight women, eating eggs instead of bagels for breakfast increased feelings of fullness and made them automatically eat fewer calories for the next 36 hours. Eggs score high on a scale called the satiety index, which measures the ability of foods to induce feelings of fullness and reduce subsequent calorie intake.

So all in you would be a fool not to get your egg on and enjoy the yolkey goodness.