Eggs, Good or Bad?

Let me ask you, does eggs good or bad? Well, neither. Eggs were once vilified for their high cholesterol content and thought to be a major contributor to heart disease. In fact, it’s not the cholesterol in food that’s the major culprit, it’s saturated and trans fats (which our bodies convert to artery-clogging cholesterol).

So it’s more likely that the heart risk from those big, traditional breakfasts was due to eggs cooked in gobs of butter—which is high in saturated fat—more than the eggs themselves. Experts now recognize that eggs contain healthy nutrients and are generally considered safe if you limit yourself to no more than one a day, and you reduce cholesterol from other sources, such as meat. (You should consume no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol per day, and one egg contains 213 milligrams.)