I am visiting my family in Missouri for an entire month! One of the best things about being from a rural area is the easy access to home-grown garden vegetables and fresh eggs that only come from living on a farm. With that being said, I was delightfully surprised when I opened my parent's refrigerator and found REAL eggs from REAL chickens from a REAL farm. I say these eggs are "real" because they came from chickens that are raised the way chickens are suppose to be raised and fed what chickens are naturally designed to eat. Yes, these eggs came from chickens that roam free on the farm and eat insects, bugs, and vegetation.
I knew this was a good egg the moment I cracked the speckled shell and saw a deep orange yolk. Yes, these eggs were too good for bread-making. There was only one way to eat these types of eggs...RAW!
I've never eaten a raw egg before and I would normally not consider eating them raw: (1) because factory farm chicken eggs are plagued with bacteria, medications, and poor nutrition, and (2) grain-fed organic eggs still come from chickens that eat grain and don't roam free. In other words, the benefits do not outweigh the risks.
What prompted my raw egg eating venture was research I read by Dr. Bernard Jensen. He recommends drinking a tonic of black cherry juice mixed with a raw egg yoke as a tonic for the blood, liver, and nerves. This tonic is also high in protein, iron, magnesium, manganese, enzymes, and contains a perfect blend of amino acids. With the fast-paced, highly stressful, malnourished society we live in, I am always up for nutritious health tonic.
Why not just eat my egg cooked? Because a cooked egg does not have the same health benefits: it increases cholesterol (as lecithin is destroyed when heated), is void of enzymes, contains little (if any) vitamins or minerals (as most are destroyed by heat), is constipating, and is very hard for the body to digest.
With that being said, I decided to "eat to live" and not "live to eat" and passed on the scrambled eggs. Instead I mixed 4 ounces of black cherry juice with a raw egg yolk and drank to my health! Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad and I think I'll make this a regular part of my morning routine, especially when I'm in a rush.
I knew this was a good egg the moment I cracked the speckled shell and saw a deep orange yolk. Yes, these eggs were too good for bread-making. There was only one way to eat these types of eggs...RAW!
I've never eaten a raw egg before and I would normally not consider eating them raw: (1) because factory farm chicken eggs are plagued with bacteria, medications, and poor nutrition, and (2) grain-fed organic eggs still come from chickens that eat grain and don't roam free. In other words, the benefits do not outweigh the risks.
What prompted my raw egg eating venture was research I read by Dr. Bernard Jensen. He recommends drinking a tonic of black cherry juice mixed with a raw egg yoke as a tonic for the blood, liver, and nerves. This tonic is also high in protein, iron, magnesium, manganese, enzymes, and contains a perfect blend of amino acids. With the fast-paced, highly stressful, malnourished society we live in, I am always up for nutritious health tonic.
Why not just eat my egg cooked? Because a cooked egg does not have the same health benefits: it increases cholesterol (as lecithin is destroyed when heated), is void of enzymes, contains little (if any) vitamins or minerals (as most are destroyed by heat), is constipating, and is very hard for the body to digest.
With that being said, I decided to "eat to live" and not "live to eat" and passed on the scrambled eggs. Instead I mixed 4 ounces of black cherry juice with a raw egg yolk and drank to my health! Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad and I think I'll make this a regular part of my morning routine, especially when I'm in a rush.
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