Egg Nutrition

Eggs contain the highest quality protein you can buy. Egg protein has just the right mix of essential amino acids needed by humans to build tissues. It is second only to mother's milk for human nutrition. In addition, eggs have thirteen essential vitamins and minerals.

Egg yolk is the major source of the egg's vitamins and minerals.

A large egg contains only 75 calories and 5 grams of fat.

Egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain
Vitamin D.

Eggs have no vitamin C because the chick can produce it from food it eats.