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Eggs - Everything You Need To Know! | JJ Virgin #Shorts | Health, Diet & Weight Loss

5 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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JJ Virgin advises that, if you can tolerate eggs, the best eggs to eat are pastured eggs (not factory, free-range, or cage-free) because feed affects yolk color and nutrient quality. High-quality pastured eggs have dense, bright orange-yellow yolks. For preserving nutritional value and avoiding oxidized cholesterol, she recommends cooking methods that use lower heat exposure—soft-boiling or poaching—instead of hard frying.

Questions this video answers

Pastured eggs (not factory, not free-range, not cage-free).

The yolk will be a dense, bright orange-yellow.

Soft-boiling or poaching (avoid hard frying to reduce cholesterol oxidation).

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Got a question. So if I'm not intolerant to eggs, what's the best type of eggs to eat and why? So here's the thing. You're going to find that when you eat European eggs, they look entirely different than US eggs because of the way the chickens eat. So you want to make sure here that you are getting pastured eggs. Not factory eggs, not free range eggs, not cage free, but actually pastured eggs. And how do you know if they're the right ones? Because the yolk is going to be this really dense, bright orange yellow. And that's when you know you got that high quality egg. Remember, you are what you eat 8. So that's the first thing. Second thing I want you to think about is how you cook that egg. Because if you fry it hard, expose it to a lot of heat, you're going to oxidize the cholesterol in that egg yolk. Remember, you really want to eat the egg white, where the protein is. And that egg yolk, that has got some really amazing healthy fats and important compounds in it. So what you want to do there is either soft boil it or poach it. That's the best way to eat those pastured eggs.