By Akinwale Akinyoade
Eggs have
three separate sections — the shell, the white and the yolk. Egg yolks used to
have a bad reputation because of their high-cholesterol content with doctors
and health authorities once recommending that people limit egg yolk
consumption. However, research has shown that cholesterol level in the blood is
affected by other factors.
While the
health benefits of egg whites are widely known, egg yolks have health benefits,
too. Like egg whites, egg yolks have a high protein content and contain many
essential vitamin, minerals, fats, and healthy calorie. Below are health
benefits of egg yolks that you should know before you toss the egg yolk away.
Eye Health
According to
research, egg yolk contains carotenoids which help to lower the risk of
age-related macular degeneration and cataracts. Carotenoids act as antioxidants
in the eye, protecting it from free radicals that can damage different parts of
the retina, impacting its ability to correctly focus light.
Benefits of Choline
A study by
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found women with the highest
level of choline intake were 24 percent less likely than women who got the
least choline in their diets to develop breast cancer. Egg yolks also help
promote heart and to regulate cardiovascular function.
More Vitamins
If you are
going to toss any part of your egg away, you should toss the egg white and not
your egg yolk because egg yolks contain more vitamins (and larger quantities of
those vitamins) than egg whites. Each egg yolk contains seven vitamins: B6,
folate, a B vitamin, B-12, A, D, E and K. interestingly, egg yolks are one of
only a handful of foods in which vitamin D is naturally found.
More Minerals
Egg yolks
and egg whites each have 13 varieties of minerals. Although both the egg white
and egg yolk contain these minerals, the yolk has larger amounts of most. The
egg yolk boasts of 90 percent of an egg’s calcium, 93 percent of its iron
content with just 7 percent in the white.
Source: https://guardian.ng/life/four-interesting-health-benefits-of-egg-yolk/
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