Eggs getting healthier

manderson27
manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
Nice to know.

Hooray for chickens!

"Get ready to crack open an egg - for new official data shows that they are healthier than they used to be, containing more than 70% more vitamin D and double the amount of selenium than when eggs were last tested 30 years ago.

They also contain around 20% less fat, more than 20% less saturated fat, around 13% fewer calories and more than 10% less cholesterol than previous surveys suggested. An average medium egg now contains 66 calories (compared to the previous figure of 78 calories) and an average large egg 77 calories (previously 91 calories).

The data, produced by the UK Foodcomp project consortium, funded by the Department of Health as part of their rolling programme of nutrient analysis surveys, provides the first update on the nutrient content of eggs since the 1980s."