How many egg yolks a day?

[Godsmack]

There are always conflicting studies about the egg yolk and how many one should consume daily. I Love eggs and sometimes feel bad trashing yolks. I am just concerned if to many yolks every day will have a bad effect on the heart due to the high cholesterol.

I currently have a very clean bulk diet and get about 80g of healthy fats from extra virgin olive oil, flax seed oil, and nuts. I have about 1 cheat meal a week if at all.

I also exercise 6 days a week for about a hour and a half each day of lifting and cardio.

I scramble 5 eggs every morning, how many yolks should I toss out of the 5???

 

[Jasthace]

I ate 5-10 eggs yolks a day for about 6 years .. only lately have I started pulling the yolks out, seeing them as unnecessary fat.
The main consideration is probably , how much fat do you want and need in a single meal?
I think one egg yolk yields about 4g fat = 7cals per gram of fat , so 5eggs yolks x4 g fat x 7cals/g =140cals from fat.

 

[uphillclimb]

I go 2-1 ratio for egg whites: full eggs.

 

[ValeTudo8080]

6 to 12 yolks per day.... these are free range organic eggs so the yolk should be the best part......all the good stuff is in there

 

[schultz1]

Just eat the whole damn egg.

 

[danielrh]

I eat the whole egg. Just depends on what you want to do on a ratio bias is over the three macronutrients. If you believe you are getting too much fat on a daily basis in relation to the other two, the cut the yolk. If not, then eat it. Also, There are 9 kcal per gram of fat.

 

[Turbolag]

Just eat the whole damn egg.

I finally started doing this. I felt kinda wasteful throwing all the yolks away.

After the gym I have been doing 5-8.

I try to cook them to where the yolk is warm, but mostly runny in the middle. Just add sea salt while cooking and they're pretty tasty.

 

[Dex]

Eat the whole thing. Don't throw them out

 

[rawdeal]

For those of you who stick to using egg whites only, or a mix of whole eggs and egg whites, do you use an "Eggbeater" type product, or do you trash the yolk from a whole egg? Why/why not?

 

[brutus79]

Eat the whole thing. Don't throw them out

Amen. Mother nature made a nice nutritional package with eggs. Don't improve on perfection.

 

[Gstacker]

I eat about 5 whole eggs a day when im really trying to shed some fat ill leave 2 yolks in there...

Anyone know how much protien is in one yolk?
I know 6grams in the whole egg.

 

[rawdeal]

Amen. Mother nature made a nice nutritional package with eggs. Don't improve on perfection.

Maybe.

If forced to choose right now, I would make a 5 egg omelet with 5 whole eggs, but I've never been sure which way to go. If indeed a whole egg is a perfect nutritional pkg, let's remember Mother Nature designed it for a chicken, not a human. You can go out to a farm somewhere and find a bull with more rippling muscle than a handful of IFBB pro's, but their diets are worlds apart.