Even if stories of featherless, beakless, sick chickens doesn’t make you want to spend an extra $1.50 on a dozen organic and/or free range eggs, you might want to consider more than the financial costs of your purchase. According to a new study done by Mother Earth News, chickens that live on a pasture create significantly healthier eggs than your average factory-kept chicken. Organic, pasture kept chickens reportedly created eggs that had:
• 1⁄3 less cholesterol
• 1⁄4 less saturated fat
• 2⁄3 more vitamin A
• 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
• 3 times more vitamin E
• 7 times more beta carotene
While these eggs might be more expensive, consider that you would have to eat twice as many to gain the same amount nutrients, which would cause a drastic increase in cholesterol.
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I clicked through the link you have for ‘cholesterol’ and got to the American Heart Association– they have a cholesterol quiz. 10 questions and each answer has more links embedded for even more helpful information, e.g. associated risks, medications, bad/good ratios. I loved it!
Wow! The additional cost of free range eggs is obviously worth it! Thanks for the enlightening information! Better nutrition for my family is important to me and this seems like a great choice!
@Magdalena: You are so right, that the point is that what we are looking for in our food is nutrition, where we get the most benefit from what we eat. Seems like it is a case of “Nutrition doesn’t cost, it pays!”