You know what I sometimes feed my children especially when I need to be on the go but lack the time to prepare. Or when I am somewhere and don’t have anything healthy. Some people may call me lazy. Actually I did it when I felt lazy too. What I did was I would boil a few eggs and served them to my kids for a meal. Fatini will throw away the yellow crumbly yolk and just ate the white part. The best thing is my kids like them hard boiled or half boiled but not fried.
Actually eggs are good food for you especially for the children. With their significant protein, vitamin and mineral content and relatively low saturated fat content, eggs are a valuable component in a healthy diet.
Protein
Eggs contain the highest quality food protein known. It is second only to mother's milk for human nutrition. Egg protein is of high biological value as it contains all the essential amino acids needed by the human body. Eggs therefore complement other food proteins of lower biological value by providing the amino acids that are in short supply in those foods. 12.5% of the weight of the egg is protein and it is found in both the yolk and the white albumen. Although protein is more concentrated around the yolk, there is in fact more protein in the albumen.
On the evaluation scale most commonly used for assessing protein, egg is at the highest point, 100, and is used as the reference standard against which all other foods are assessed.
Vitamins
Egg yolk is the major source of the egg's vitamins and minerals. Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C. The egg is a good source of all the B vitamins, plus the fat-soluble vitamin A. It also provides useful amounts of vitamin D, as well as some vitamin E.
Minerals
Eggs contain most of the minerals that the human body requires for health. In particular eggs are an excellent source of iodine, required to make the thyroid hormone, and phosphorus, required for bone health. The egg provides significant amounts of zinc, important for wound healing, growth and fighting infection; selenium, an important antioxidant; and calcium, needed for bone and growth structure and nervous function. Eggs also contain significant amounts of iron, the vital ingredient of red blood cells.
What about cholesterol?
Egg yolks are indeed full of cholesterol. As in everything else moderation in egg intake is required. The average large egg contains 212 milligrams of cholesterol. The fat of an egg is found almost entirely in the yolk; there is less than 0.05% in the albumen. However you could opt for the healthier Omega-3 eggs which have healthier fats in the yolk.
Following is additional facts on egg yolk and egg white for our information.
