Loading ...The egg, a health food and omnipresent throughout kitchen
The egg has been for many years a food which has been shelved in the diets engordaba to believe that, but the World Day Egg experts were trying to show their nutritional qualities and their low calorific value, like that of a piece of fruit.
It is a food that either as a main ingredient or to link others, is ever present in most recipes, which is why the Second Week Gourmet Egg, which has been held with headquarters in Argentina since October 8, led to the main restaurants to pay tribute, including it even in haute cuisine dishes.
Poché eggs, fried eggs, yolks … Some of the many ways to cook eggs, a very healthy food for health, contrary to what they say to the myths associated with the cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.
“The egg is bad for health is a myth, because since ancient times has been considered very healthy,” he told the Efe nutritionist Romina Sayar.
He added that the bad reputation of the egg is because “in the seventies began to carry out research on cardiovascular disease and that cholesterol is a risk factor, and the egg yolk contains it, began to speak badly Him. ”
However, it has been proven that it does not increase the levels of blood cholesterol and has very few calories in spite of the many nutrients that it consists.
The egg, but most people do not know, it contains proteins essential for human beings, as “the carotenoid protein, which prevents the risk of visual diseases, such as cataracts, and codina, which helps the development of Memory” , Sayar said.
Among the diet of the artichoke, the dissociation or dairy can now include the egg as a health food because “not fattening. Has only 75 calories, as a fruit,” said the Argentine nutritionist.
“A diet is fantastic because it is rich in protein and thus creates a feeling of satiety that makes meals more space,” he concluded.
The Argentine Chamber of Poultry Producers (Capia) highlighted in this World Week Egg that “consumption is desirable at all stages of life: children, adults, pregnant women and elderly, and that nourishes the child, the teenager strengthens, nourishes adult and favors to the elderly because of its unique traditional nutrients. ”
The World Egg Week, which culminates the second Friday of October with the World Egg Day is celebrated ten years in the 153 countries that make up the International Egg Commission.
