As a cheap source of protein, eggs are also useful to prevent a heart attack. One of them by choosing eggs are rich in antioxidants, the eggs from chickens fed on fodder containing omega-6 fatty acids lower.
"Antioxidants in chicken eggs can reduce the effect of oxidation of cholesterol in the blood that was influential on the narrowing of the arteries," said Niva Shapira, Professor of nutrition at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, which conducts research on egg.
The benefits of antioxidants is just one of a series of benefits an egg. However, You also need cholesterol content in eggs should. People who have bad cholesterol levels (LDL) high allowed only mengasup less than 200 mg of cholesterol per day, this means prohibited mengonsomsi yolks due to kolesterolnya reached 213 mg.
Here are tips for choosing healthy chicken eggs.
Select which is rich in omega-3 "Label eggs containing omega-3 means the assurance that a hen has been given a feed that is high in omega-3 fatty acid levels which increases healthy in their eggs," said Kathy Nichols, nutrition expert from California. The egg containing omega-3 has 400 mg EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid acid) and omega-3 DHA ((docosahexaenoic acid). Eggs usually only contains 40 mg.
Colour brown or white?
Basically there is no nutritional difference between chicken eggs that are white or brownish colored.
No need to organic
Organic chicken eggs means chicken farms that graze the cattle with organic food and this means going to reduce pesticides on Earth. However from the health, actually this is not much effect because of toxins from pesticides have no effect on the egg itself.
Research conducted at the University of Oregon team find though labeled an egg has organic omega-3 levels are similar to regular eggs. In other words, the granting of organic feed has no effect on the levels of nutrisinya, likewise is the case with the removable or chicken in cages.