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| Well you don't get much of the good omega-3 fatty acids unless the hens are really free range or have them in their feed, like with flaxseed. Very few egg boxes are labeled with an omega-3 claim in the store. But yeah, these constantly ever-changing diet fads are really one of the worst things that can happen to our food and diet. People tend to forget that we've been eating eggs for millennia, and probably much more than we do now, as meat was a rarity.
Note that "free range" on the egg box is a total misnomer as there is no standard defined for free range eggs. It only means that the hens have "access" to the outdoors, not that they actually go outdoors much or at all, or that the outdoors have any grass or insect. It is usually plain dirt, it could even be concrete. So no omega-3 with that label either, unless it's added to the feed.
Same for organic eggs by the way, no guaranteed actual free range, only free range "access."
For those interested, there are 5 different categories of eggs in France, all coded on the egg with a printed number from 0 to 3 (and a "red label" mention on the box for code #1:
3 and 2 are for caged hens, with 2 different population density (13 and 9 hens per square meter), 1 is free range (also 9 hens/sq.m in the barn and 4 sq.m/hen outside), the "red label" limits the population to 6,000 hens per barn, with 9 hens/sq.m in the barn on the ground without stacking levels, it increases outdoors density to 5 sq.m/hen, prohibits egg yolk coloring in the feed, eggs must be collected at least twice a day. Code #0 is for organic eggs, also free range, 3,000 hens/barn with 6 hens/sq.m on the ground, has 4 sq.m/hen outside on a field grown organically. | |
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eat more eggs.
