Is 3 eggs a day too much?

[gareth h]

I’ve been trying to make some adjustments to my diet, and found 3 scrambled eggs with some greens for lunch keeps me going without snacking until an evening meal, I’ve seen different opinions on cholesterol, any thoughts on what would be considered healthy?

[Gary29]

That rate of consumption would not bother me, I often have 3-4 eggs a day. Alongside a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet.

[av185]

Eat as many eggs as you like within reason.

But buy expensive quality free range organic eggs with intense orange coloured yolks not the crappy budget supermarket variety with watery insipid coloured yellow yolks.

[Evoluzione]

1 - 2 is recommended, but until you get a cholesterol count you won't know for sure.

[mcelliott]

Eat 5 a day without fail, its the quality of egg that's the most important, my mum has always eaten numerous eggs a day all her life and shes almost 90

I keep chickens so I know for sure the quality, would never buy from a supermarket.

[JayRidesBikes]

I make scrambled egg & toast 3-4 times a week for breakfast, always use 3 eggs.

[BabySharkDD]

Hasn’t caused me any issues

Try duck eggs too. Creamier, more nutritious, and a bit more flavour than chicken eggs

[Ed/L152]

av185 said:

But buy [...] eggs with intense orange coloured yolks

Yolk colour is artificially controlled via additives to the chicken food. In and of itself, yolk colour is no indication of egg quality.

[HTP99]

Had 2 poached eggs on a slice of granary toast, daily for breakfast for years, I'm fine, it's the only breakfast that keeps me going strong until lunch.

[272BHP]

Vladimir Nabokov wrote:

A soft-boiled egg with buttered toast is the most delicious meal known to man.

One is never enough though - three gets my vote.

[crankedup5]

‘ Go to work on an egg’ showing my age now recalling that old advert from years ago.

[Mammasaid]

272BHP said:

One is never enough though.

It is in France...

[madbadger]

Mammasaid said:

272BHP said:

One is never enough though.

It is in France...

[RichTT]

4 eggs a day, scrambled, after the gym in the morning. Cooked with a little beef tallow. Sublime.

Edited by RichTT on Tuesday 27th September 15:05

[Horsey McHorseface]

The last I heard: you don't get high cholesterol in your blood by consuming foods high in cholesterol. It's more caused by eating unhealthy fats, ie saturated fat. Eggs I believe contain about 1.75g of saturated fat per egg. I think UK guidelines state to keep under 30g saturated per day, for men, and under 20g per day for women. In the US thery recomend less, about 5-7% total calories, which works out to roughly half the UK recomendation.

[bern]

We went almost entirely plant based a few years ago. Purely for health reasons, nothing to do ethics. So eggs were off the menu. It was the only food I missed and did crave them every now and then and did still occasionally eat them. I was talking to a woman at work about it one lunch time and she referred to them as chicken periods

I don't crave them quite as much now!

[plenty]

I eat 20 per week minimum, and as many as 80/week when in keto.

[RichTT]

Horsey McHorseface said:

The last I heard: you don't get high cholesterol in your blood by consuming foods high in cholesterol. It's more caused by eating unhealthy fats, ie saturated fat. Eggs I believe contain about 1.75g of saturated fat per egg. I think UK guidelines state to keep under 30g saturated per day, for men, and under 20g per day for women. In the US thery recomend less, about 5-7% total calories, which works out to roughly half the UK recomendation.

Cut out artificial oils. Stick to butter, beef tallow, olive oil. I noticed a massive difference.

[jagnet]

Are 3 eggs too much? I hope not, I've already had 7 today.

RichTT said:

Cut out artificial oils. Stick to butter, beef tallow, olive oil. I noticed a massive difference.

This is the way.

[grumbledoak]

Your body needs and thus manufactures cholesterol. It is basically impossible to eat enough to fully supply your needs, so if you eat more cholesterol it makes less and vice versa. You won’t vary serum cholesterol that way.

Fat to cholesterol to heart disease is called the Lipid Hypothesis. Both legs have been proven false more times than I can be bothered to count. Doesn’t seem to matter, it remains widely believed. Follow the money on that one.

I usually eat them six at a time, boiled, scrambled, or as an omelette.