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Info on the egg

In the last few years there are numerous researches that started to change the view of the public. Instead of showing the eggs as unhealthy, they prove that one egg per day contributes to a better day and a better life. In correlation to the other foods, eggs are quite cheap; have many valuable vitamins important for the brain; contain many antioxidants, lutein and zaxine, which are important for good sight and keeping the eyes healthy.

The researches show that consuming one or even more eggs per day, in the boundaries of a balanced diet, have almost no impact on the blood’s cholesterol level, and don’t increase the risk of heart diseases or heart attacks of healthy adult people, even so that the consummation of eggs is related with the decrease of blood pressure. The latest researches show us not only that there is no correlation between egg consumption and risk of heart diseases, but on the contrary – that eggs are an exceptional source of choline (that has an important role in the degradation of homocysteine – an amino acid in the blood that is responsible for emergence of the heart diseases).

7 INTERESTING FACTS

Mother hen turns her egg around 50 times a day, so the yolk doesn’t stick to the egg-shell.
Layers produce an average of 300 eggs/year. Starting at the age of 19 weeks, lays eggs for 12 months.
As the layer grows old, produces bigger eggs.
White shelled eggs are the product of white feathered layers. The layers that have red feathers, lay brown shelled eggs.
The colour of the egg is in no correlation with the quality or taste of the egg itself. There’s no difference in the nutritive ingredients of eggs with different coloured shell.

ONE EGG PER DAY IS O.K.

Eggs contain variable/different quantities of vitamins and minerals, and the better part of those nutritive values can be found in the yolk.
You can visually see that in the following table:

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The biggest egg in the world had 5 yolks. A very common occurrence are eggs with 2 yolks. Those are the result of very fast ovulation and are usually a product of very young layers or layers that are at the end of their productive period.
China is the biggest egg producer – around 160 billion/year. In the USA, around 260 million layers produce 65 billion eggs/year.

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