Eggs-tra nutrition: Why egg is a superior protein choice

Nutritionally, eggs are considered one of the highest quality protein foods on the planet. — GCapture/Dreamstime/TNS

NUTRITIONALLY, eggs are considered one of the highest quality protein foods on the planet. Yet for more than 40 years, they took a beating from health experts due to their high cholesterol content. That was when the prevailing evidence pointed to assumptions that diets high in cholesterol were bad for the heart.

Then in 2013, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology unscrambled decades of research and concluded that “egg consumption is not associated with cardiovascular (heart) disease or (the risk of dying from heart disease) in the general population”.