Egg beaters: The stupidest product in the world?
June 1 2011 by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
in Industrial food-like products
in Industrial food-like products 
Only in America. How about a REAL EGG PRODUCT to lower your cholesterol?
Let’s find out how “real” this is.
Nutrition facts…
Let’s compare the ingredients to a real egg. A real egg, as you know, has no other ingredients. This REAL EGG PRODUCT is something else:
Ingredients: Egg whites, Flavor, Color, etc. etc., Xantan Gum, Guar Gum, Maltodextrin.
Only fake industrial food-like products need stuff like that.
Does this fake food product lower your cholesterol? Sure. Eating low fat products lowers your good HDL cholesterol. And a lower HDL means your risk of heart disease is higher.
Time to end the insanity
Why not have all the real eggs you want instead? The way nature designed them. Perfectly healthy great tasting real food that doesn’t even have a list of ingredients:
On a related note, it's shocking how much butter in my local grocery store contains flavoring. Even the expensive, "European" stuff and the organic brands. The only brand I was able to find that had no added flavoring was Valu Time (a discount brand). It seems that we have gotten so used to margarine that we need butter-flavored butter.
I nodded and smiled not wanting a family melt down...LOL
You are a beacon in the dark Doc keep up the good work. Heard you on Hank's pod cast your English is top notch nothing to worry about
1. There are frankenfoods everywhere I guess. But they always seem much worse when I go to the US.
2. HDL particles contain cholesterol and are usually referred to as "HDL cholesterol", the "good" cholesterol.
3. Statistically it is a good thing to naturally have high HDL levels. Although raising it by drugs have repeatedly failed to make patients healthier, so maybe HDL is just a marker for something else that is healthy. Such as a high fat low carb diet perhaps?
http://www.wellspringacademies.com/recipes.html
I went camping with several friends a couple of months ago. Most of us were happy with scrambled eggs (mixed with heavy cream and cooked in bacon fat, yum!), but I had one friend who was on a calorie restricting diet and requested that I make a separate batch of egg beaters for him.
Never again. The egg beaters actually STRIPPED the seasoning off of my cast iron pan! I'm still working to re-season it, but what a mess! They smelled like plastic that was trying to be an egg, it almost made me gag when I was cooking it. Washing the dishes afterwords was a nightmare. I can only imagine what that nastiness is doing inside my friend's gut. Ew.
You do have a choice. You can chose not to eat eggs or egg beaters. I understand you think people here are bashing egg beaters, but the fact of the matter is processed foods simply are not healthy. I recently have started to eliminate all processed foods and replace them with the natural thing, and I feel better than I have in a long time. So while you feel that you MUST eat egg beaters because you can't eat the real thing, I would rather go without eggs than to eat something I know is not good for me.
Hi, William! I'm afraid that's not something we can answer for you, as location and availability are going to vary greatly. I would suggest researching to see if there are any local farms in your area that sell their meat.
Instead of something like this product with so many additives, you might want to try a quality liquid egg white product. There are some brands that are simply egg whites. Be sure to check ingredients!
Hi, Lawrence! Nothing wrong with real egg whites! However, you'll want to avoid products like this with so many additives. You should be able to find quality liquid egg whites without additives. Here's our cholesterol guide that should also be helpful for you! https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/cholesterol-basics