How many eggs can you eat per week to stay healthy?

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This Friday, October 11, 2024, is World Egg Day. A product that the French love since they consume it on average 220 per year per person.

Foods with several benefits, you must nevertheless be careful with your consumption, especially when you have high cholesterol levels.

Recommendations that vary depending on the person

Isabelle Proudy, dietitian and nutritionist near Rennes, contacted by actu.frissues recommendations based on each individual’s cholesterol level.

If the person does not have high cholesterol, they can consume between eight and twelve per week. On the other hand, for a person who has high cholesterol, it is better to eat four to six per week.

These recommendations concern only egg yolksbecause they have “a significant amount of cholesterol”, estimates the specialist. So no limit on the consumption of egg whites.

And be careful, preparations with eggs, such as quiches or flans, must be counted in these limits.

A good source of protein

But this food also has benefits. “Eggs have very interesting nutritional benefits,” reassures the nutritionist.

They contain protein, approximately 12 g per 100 g. “And they have good nutritional quality, because the amino acids are present completely,” explains Isabelle Proudy.

Amino acids are the molecules that make up proteins. There are 20 of them.

Eggs contain many essential amino acids. “Their essential amino acid composition is perfectly adapted to human needs», underlines INRAE, the Food Research Institute.

“Egg proteins are also very digestible», adds Isabelle Proudy. And then, they also have the advantage of suitable for a vegetarian diet
. They then allow you to provide proteins without consuming meat and fish.

This hen product also contains several vitamins and minerals. “There is iron, vitamin D, vitamin B12 and calcium,” the nutritionist further specifies.

Be careful when cooking

However, as with many foods, all of these benefits can be altered by cooking. The nutritionist recommends avoiding overcooking them. “The best are soft-boiled or soft-boiled eggs,” explains Isabelle Proudy.

And be careful, for fans of fast food, microwaving can quickly lead to overcooking. “We don’t know the temperature, unlike an oven for example, so we have to remain vigilant,” warns Isabelle Proudy who recommends using this cooking method “to help out.”

And if the egg is heated in a plastic container, there is a risk of micro-plastics passing into the food.

As for the breeding method, it is better to eat eggs from chickens that are fed with seeds rich in Omega-3“that way, we find them in eggs,” adds Isabelle Proudy. Or even favor chickens raised outdoors, if they eat grass. But there, it’s difficult to know.

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