Plants get all the glory for their impressive nutrient content and animal foods tend to go unnoticed. But what about the egg? Truly, it’s a superfood extraordinaire! Eggs are a great source of other vital nutrients like choline, lutein, zeaxanthin, riboflavin, vitamin D, B2, B5, B12, vitamin A, iodine, and selenium. The yolk is the star. It’s bright, it’s orange and it’s full of good stuff. In fact, the richer and darker the egg yolk is in color, the higher the carotenoid content.  Most...
by on December 22nd, 2009 at 05:12 am

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  • Superfood of the Week: Eggs
    Plants get all the glory for their impressive nutrient content and animal foods tend to go unnoticed. But what about the egg? Truly, it’s a superfood extraordinaire! Eggs are a great source of other vital nutrients...
    by at December 22nd, 2009 at 05:12 am
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    Wilted Beet Greens with Italian Sausage
    These Italian style wilted greens can go with pasta for dinner. Or, skip the pasta and tuck them under a softly poached egg. Wilted Beet Greens with Italian Sausage 2 portions dry pasta (bow ties!) 2 sweet Italian sausages...
    by at May 28th, 2009 at 01:05 pm
  • What’s the Buzz About Vitamin D?
    Vitamin D has been all over the news as the latest nutrient whose Recommended Daily Allowance has come under great scrutiny. Dietary vitamin D is unique in that it is not actually a vitamin and would be better classified as...
    by at May 25th, 2009 at 05:05 am
  • Go Ahead and Eat the Yolk
    I often marvel at the brilliantly packaged,  deliciously satisfying and nutritionally dense  creation of nature with the strangest of names in  almost any language (dzou in Armenian, oeuf in  French and even egg –...
    by at May 15th, 2009 at 01:05 pm