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Get Cracking: 8 Health Secrets Contained in Eggs

By: Emily Lockhart on Thursday, June 5th

As far as compact super foods go, eggs take the whole omelette.

One whole egg is filled with a ton of essential vitamins, healthy fats, proteins, and health benefits, like these, that will convince you to get cracking regularly…

1. The Perfect Protein

Did you know that many nutritionists consider the egg a perfect source of protein? Consider that a single, whole egg contains, on average, 6-grams of protein—that’s including all 9 essential amino acids that the body can’t produce on it’s own—such as Tryptophan, Leucine, Histidine, Lysine, Threonine, Isoleucine, Phenylalanine, Methionine, and Valine.

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