Peter's Principles - Nutrition
Eggs: Do The White Thing
Is an egg all that it's cracked up to be?
First, let's talk about what's inside an egg. If you take an average size egg, it has six grams of protein, the building block of muscle. It also has 6 grams of artery clogging fat, plus 300 milligrams of cholesterol. The American Heart Association recommends the most people only consume 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day.
The average egg also contains 300 milligrams of sodium as well. There is a sunny side to this picture, though.
If you break an egg in half and cook just the egg white, you'll notice a dramatic difference nutritionally speaking. The white part of the egg has a mere 3 grams of protein, zero fat, zero cholesterol and just a few milligrams of sodium.
So the next time you want an excellent source of protein, crack a couple of eggs and have an egg white omelet.