Who eats the most eggs? At first, I thought of America - Fresh scrambled eggs... pancakes,
eggs... Denny's, those two strips of bacon, two eggs and two fluffy... but I was surprised
to learn that Japan eats way more eggs - at 320 eggs per person in 2017, that’s 70 more eggs than
Americans. By weight, Japan ate more eggs than chicken, pork or beef. Japan was the number #1
egg consumer in the world for quite a while until China took the lead in 2014. So why all the eggs?
I’ve lived in Japan for 10 years now and there’s a bunch of creative and delicious dishes with cooked
and raw egg here: A popular breakfast is tamago kake gohan, just rice with a raw egg mixed in
with a little soy sauce. The popular rice bowl fast food chains Yoshinoya, Sukiya and Matsuya
all have raw and soft boiled egg available for order.
The dipping sauce for the mea dish sukiyaki has raw egg, and of course you get boiled egg
in ramen and the popular winter soup oden… and eggs show up in all kinds of bentos.
After the war, thanks to the Leghorn chicken with a high egg lay rate coming to Japan...
"the chicken of tomorrow." ... and the government and media recommending protein
and calcium rich eggs to help with the damaged health of the post-war Japanese population,
egg consumption boomed and the once rare egg became a household staple by the 1960’s.
So, while it it was advertised early on to Japanese people that eggs will
rebuild their strength, Americans didn’t hear too much about eggs other than that
cholesterol rich eggs are bad for your heart. and While Japan held the #1 position for egg
consumption for 30 years from 1984, American egg consumption has mostly declined since the 60’s.
Eggs are a very low cost source of protein, vitamin A,
iron, vitamin B12, riboflavin, choline, zinc and calcium. Actually, Egg has some amount of every
single nutrient - vitamins and minerals, except for vitamin C. These nutrients are good news for
Japan whose egg consumption continues to rise... Anytime someone’s got a hankering for some egg,
they can walk into a convenience store and pick up some tamagoyaki or ramen style boiled eggs.
There is a huge variety of chicken eggs here. I went
to three different supermarket chains nearby and counted up 34
different types of eggs among them. Japan has a lot of what are called “designer eggs.”
The cool thing about chickens is they are opportunistic omnivores,
so you can feed them all kinds of stuff. Actually, chickens are known to eat plenty of bugs, and if
the opportunity arises they will eat small lizards and mice. So designer eggs are when Certain foods
are deliberately given to chickens to enhance the texture, taste or nutrients of the egg.
For example the chickens of these eggs were fed
scraps of tuna to enhance the brain enriching nutrient DHA.
So you get various types of eggs where the chicken was feed things like molasses, flax seed oil,
carrots and pumpkin… these were fed various types of herbs including basil, rosemary and cinnamon.
So you get eggs with higher vitamin levels - these
have twice the vitamin B6 and 2.5 times the vitamin E of normal eggs. "Egg."
The most expensive eggs I could find were 70 dollars for a pack of ten.
These are from chickens that were fed bits of fish, seaweed, ground sesame, turmeric, red
peppers and 25 different types of Chinese herbs and the chickens were treated very well of course.
I wonder what they fed to make the shell so strong,
it’s kind of hard to break it and there’s a thick membrane you need to bust through.
Under a microscope The shell even has a much different appearance from that of a normal egg.
The egg white and yolk seem a lot thicker and there’s a
much richer color with the expensive egg.
These eggs are actually meant to be eaten raw,
so I asked my friend Jasmine to come by and eat a bunch of raw eggs.
"Mmm!
Whoah. It's sweet." "Really?"
"Yea, it's actually - yea it's actually reallly sweet. I wouldn't think it's egg."
"Egg yolk... a deep orange..."
"Whoa, it doesn't really taste like egg... much. It tastes like an egg but it's really rich,
and thick and woody almost? It's really good. I think this is the better egg,
I'm already assuming." "Yolk... a normal egg color."
"Tastes like... a normal egg to me. Yup."
"but the other one was pretty significantly different?"
"Yea, significantly different. The other one was like potent. The other one tasted a lot richer.
It was more delicious, it was actually really good. This just tastes like an egg to me."
Because of excellent regulations on egg production in Japan,
raw eggs are actually very safe. With a salmonella infection rate of only .0029%,
a Japanese person can expect to get sick once every ...two lifetimes. For the record, Japanese
people don't just eat raw eggs with spoons. This is the simplest raw egg dish - tamago kake gohan.
"Mmm... huhuhu it's good. Huhuhu."
Actually before these arrived I tried the yolk of these 5 different brands
of egg - - they were all quite mild and some were slightly richer than others,
but the yolk of the expensive egg is actually quite different from all of them. It's really
rich and has a sort of nutty flavor to it. It's just better but it's hard to put your finger on.
I tried the egg cooked sunny side up and unfortunately you lose some
of the flavor by cooking it but it was a lot better than a normal egg.
I don’t have data on the egg’s nutritional differences, but because the yolk is so
rich and has a deep redness to it we can expect that there’s a lot of vitamin A in these eggs.
This is one of chickens’ super powers. They take carotenoids,
the inferior plant derived vitamin A precursor, and convert it for us
into the better absorbed more biologically active form of vitamin A - retinol.
"Are you just eating raw egg and rice?" "Hai."
"That's gross!" "Oishii yo."
If you’re not used to eating eggs raw - you might be grossed out,
but you’d be surprised how well raw egg goes with some foods.
Before you eat raw eggs, look into the safety of raw eggs in your country.
There’s actually health benefits to not heating the egg - particularly the egg yolk.
A couple years back when I first got into a low carbohydrate diet, I was on an egg
kick - I ate tons of eggs, often scrambled. But, too many scrambled eggs would always
make my stomach a little queasy. At some point, I picked up a pack of these lightly cooked onsen
tamago one day, had three of them in a huge salad and my stomach felt fine. So the next day I ran a
little experiment - I straight up had 8 raw eggs by themselves and my stomach was totally fine.
What I think the issue was is cooking the egg too much oxidizes the fats in the egg yolk.
"Stop! Stop! He's already dead."
Eggs, particularly those from cage free pastured chickens, have the healthy omega-3
polyunsaturated fatty acids. But omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids
are very prone to oxidation and oxidized fats are unhealthy. This is why you definitely don’t want
to cook with polyunsaturated vegetable oils like canola, soybean, sunflower, peanut oil and others.
But anyways, my point is that if you can, you don’t want to heat your egg yolk too
much because oxidized fats are bad news and cause an inflammatory response in the body.
This is not to say that raw eggs are good and cooked eggs are bad,
cooked eggs will still have all the benefits and nutrients discussed above.
Cooked eggs are good, but eggs with the yolk not overcooked are better.
Recently I ran a poll and it seems 46% of you think eggs are healthy enough that ten a
day is no problem and while 19% of you weren’t sure but owned a tamagotchi in middle school,
35% of you at least thought that 10 eggs was too much and the rest of you still need to
hit the subscribe and bell button. Sure, 10 eggs is a lot of food, about 800 calories,
but if they're good quality pastured eggs, what’s wrong with a bunch of eggs?
The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines said you don’t have to worry about eating too much cholesterol.
85% of the cholesterol in your blood comes from the body making it. So, if you eat too much,
your body will just make less cholesterol. This is why most people can eat ridiculous
amounts of cholesterol and have normal blood cholesterol, like these 8 burn patients who
ate 35 eggs a day for a month. Or this 88 year old who ate 25 eggs a day for 15 years.
Actually, evidence is showing we don’t need to worry about cholesterol,
and triglycerides are more important but that’s a story for another time.
Today we still have headlines saying things like eggs will increase your risk of heart disease,
diabetes and death. But the studies these are based on have terrible designs, for example this
very professional looking 2019 study saying eggs increase heart disease and death got their data
by giving people a multiple choice questionnaire asking them to remember about how many eggs they
ate in all of last year - who accurately keeps track of their egg intake for a whole year?
The data in the “eggs give you diabetes” study is totally muddled because the people eating the most
eggs happened to smoke the most, eat the most calories, exercise the least and drink the most
alcohol. The type of people to eat a bunch of eggs despite dietary guidelines saying eggs are bad
are probably the type of people who ignore health advice in general.
I’m not a dietician, I’m not a doctor, and I’m not recommending everyone eat 10 eggs a day
But personally I think these anti-egg claims need to stop "But then I found a study suggesting
that eating just one egg a day can be as bad as smoking 5 cigarettes per day for life expectancy."
Eggs are a cheap source of protein and valuable nutrients. Harvard says one egg a day is fine,
Healthline says 3 a day is fine but why? but What’s wrong even with 5 or 6?
42% of Americans are vitamin D deficient. Along with all these other nutrients,
10 normal eggs would give you 100% of your vitamin D requirement... Just sayin’.
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So I was playing with this AI software that let’s you change one frame from a video
and then it will apply that change to the rest of the video.
It seems to be that it recognizes certain shapes within the image, but I’m not sure why the face
I put on this egg got all warbled, but if you want to know how things like this work,