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Assuming your diet and nutrition is on point. Is there any real benefit to buying more expensive eggs? I eat 2 a day. 18 of these costs me $2. Some more expensive ones cost $10 for the same amount.
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>>77205560
i mean if you feel fine and the blood work and shit is okay why the fuck would you stress about feeling maybe a little better? just annoying minmaxxer society by fatfuck retards that dont know anything but take a million supplements and will shout at you how you are a retard for doing anything
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>>77205553
Most things you're not going to notice the difference on the outside, but in the long run you might feel worse.
Non-Organics eggs are from chickens injected with an abundance of hormones and chemicals, and fed chemical slop.
Organic chickens are a lot better, and you can detect it in the flavor and the digestion, but you do you. Try it out and see if you can notice a difference. Costco you can buy in bulk for cheaper.
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>>77205553
i care about getting organic/pasture-raised/grass-fed/blah blah blah for some things, and not for others. eggs are something i go cheap on. the price difference between cheap and expensive eggs is fucking ridiculous (like ~3x around me) and i don't think it's worth it
i will say, if you do decide to go expensive on your eggs, at least do it correctly and only buy the ones that say pasture-raised. those "organic cage-free" are still packed like sardines inside barns and fed corn sloppa
>Pastured-raised hens also produce healthier eggs, according to a 2003 study out of Pennsylvania State University. In it, researchers found that one pasture-raised egg contains twice as much omega-3 fat, three times more vitamin D, four times more vitamin E and seven times more beta-carotene than eggs from hens raised on traditional feed.
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>>77205586
these eggs would be optimal? It's literally 6x the cost per egg from my cheap ones
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>>77205610
Looks like utter shit. Look at that packaging, waste of money. In the UK you get the best eggs dirt cheap from middle eastern shops, they raise them in their own gardens. Deep orange yolks. 30 for like £3. No fancy packaging or jewish tricks at all.
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>>77205616
>organic pasture-raised eggs
Thank you. Is it these? Otherwise they don't sell them near me
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>>77205619
nah, they have this blue cardboard cover over the carton like how vital eggs does. they sell them at kroger subsidiaries around me
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>>77205610
Those are the best at the grocery store probably. I used to get those, the tell you about each chickens pasture square footage, and have a cheeky chicken baseball card. Good eggs too.
The real best way while still being low effort is just buy them from Eric's wife at work because the have 15 chickens and let them run wild. 4 bucks a dozen vs a bit more for the vital farms I think.
Good eggs generally will have a darker yolk.
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Im kinda curious and find these threads somewhat amusing and interesting because i live in an absolute shithole yet i dont think about this, eggs where i am are a very bright orange and smell almost like custard so this whole charade is kinda alien to me
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pasture raised eggs have a different nutrient profile than cage free. the fats in the pasture raised eggs are better, which has benefits for heart health and brain health. there are also more micronutrients in them, like the different vitamins.
I don't know about the protein quality between the two to make any claims there.
but yeah, if you want to health max then pasture raised is the way, the cost is negligible, yes it is 5x the cost of your poverty eggs, but its chump change. Its $5, split over 6 meals if you are eating 2 eggs a day.
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>>77205764
>pasture raised eggs have a different nutrient profile than cage free. the fats in the pasture raised eggs are better, which has benefits for heart health and brain health. there are also more micronutrients in them, like the different vitamins.
Do you have literally any evidence to back this up that you can make such a general claim?
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>>77207302
Nta but are you the guy from the last egg thread who never accepts the evidence for pasture eggs generally having much higher omega 3s?
I'm not even the guy who presented the evidence, it was just interesting to see someone need so badly for it not to be true.
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>>77205553
Regular eggs have more Omega 6 (bad) in them than Omega 3 (good). Pasture raised eggs are the highest quality eggs you can get in a grocery store.
>>77205610
Vital farms is a publicly traded company and has one of the more expensive eggs out there. Try to get grocery store branded eggs, they will be $2-3 cheaper. I get the Whole Foods pasture raised eggs at $6/dozen
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>>77205610
Vital farms was bought out by Blackrock and is now garbage. corn and onions feed
https://www.thekitchn.com/vital-farms-egg-controversy-23766750
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>>77205553
yes
micronutrient density and variety
putting a chicken in a cage, under artificial lighting and feeding it specific crops to maximize egg shitting will not yield best eggs
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I buy the 5doz boxes from walmart. They're $8 now. Probably the best cost/protein ratio you can find. It just seems tedius to prepare sometimes.
I think the move is to just cook a bunch at one time, and have a 1/2 inch sheet of egg that you can cut into portions, and store for later. It's awesome to just have big pieces of cooked egg in the fridge to quickly eat.
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>>77205553
>"assuming your diet and nutrition is on point"
And then you immediately ask about compromising your diet and nutrition quality. I have no reason to believe ypur anything is on point if you're buying ghetto eggs.
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>>77207302
https://www.psu.edu/news/agricultural-sciences/story/research-shows-eg gs-pastured-chickens-may-be-more-nu tritious
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Yes.
The chickens diet massively changes the egg quality.
My dad's boomer friend gave us some of his eggs his chickens laid. He has no clue about nutrition, chicken raising, agriculture or anything, just feeds them corn&basedmeal pellet.
The eggs were simply dogshit. Very brittle shell, and a poorly mineralised shell is a poorly mineralised egg.
There was basically no eggshell membrane.
The egg whites were watery = a low protein content of the egg.
The egg yolk was extremely pale, almost colorless = little fat soluable vitamins.
The eggs tasted shit, like you scrambled them 4 days ago and left them in the fridge then microwaved them warm again.
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Guys,
you are all gaslighting yourselves. Here are some facts about eggs in the US, which seems to largely be the focus here:
1) The color of the egg yolk is not a good indicator of quality. In a natural environment, yes, it would be, but it can be faked simply by feeding chickens their normal slop + paprika. However, as far as I know, the watery, translucent egg whites cannot be easily covered up. The egg shells can be faked simply by supplementing calcium in their diet, which obviously does not add any other minerals or vitamins.
2) There is no standard or enforcement on the buzzwords cage-free and pasture-raised and outdoor access. For instance, cage free can and usually does still mean the chickens are still indoors and still have similar if not exactly the same chicken density per sq ft, just out of a cage. A """pasture""" is simply ground that is open to weather at least some of the time. There's likely no fucking grass or vegetation there for them to forage.
3) The ONLY certification that is worth anything if you are buying widely distributed commercial eggs in the US is Certified Humane. It's not that common (even in Whole Foods) and pretty fucking expensive.
4) Getting from a local farm THAT YOU KNOW AND HAVE SOME IDEA OF HOW THEY OPERATE is generally the best way to get good eggs without paying out the ass, although this has become in vogue lately so even local farms charge quite a bit now.
Anyway, good luck with your eggs. Good eggs are amazing and worth the effort, but if you cannot get them, stop being autistic; it's not the end of the world. You'll be fine.
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>>77205580
The answer is no. You will not feel a single difference. The only time you will ever feel or taste a difference is if the egg is starting to rot
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>>77208816
>you are all gaslighting yourselves.
projection at its finest. I have never seen an egg sold in grocery stores or farmers market the way you described ever in my life. You should honestly never eat your dad's eggs, low quality eggs sold by some random dude would be better