Eggs are delicious and extremely versatile.
They can be cooked in many different ways and are easy to combine with other healthy foods, like vegetables.
Cooking them also destroys any dangerous bacteria, making them safer to eat.
Boiled
Hard-boiled eggs are cooked in their shells in a pot of boiling water for 6–10 minutes, depending on how well cooked you want the yolk to be.
The longer you cook them, the firmer the yolk will become.
Poached
Poached eggs are cooked in slightly cooler water.
They’re cracked into a pot of simmering water between 160–180°F (71–82°C) and cooked for 2.5–3 minutes.
Fried
Fried eggs are cracked into a hot pan that contains a thin layer of cooking fat.
You can then cook them “sunny side up,” which means the egg is fried on one side, or “over easy,” which means the egg is fried on both sides.
Baked
Baked eggs are cooked in a hot oven in a flat-bottomed dish until the egg is set.
Scrambled
Scrambled eggs are beaten in a bowl, poured into a hot pan, and stirred over low heat until they set.
Omelette
To make an omelette, eggs are beaten, poured into a hot pan, and cooked slowly over low heat until they’re solid.
Unlike scrambled eggs, an omelette isn’t stirred once it’s in the pan.
Microwaved
Microwaves can be used to cook eggs in many different ways. It takes much less time to cook eggs in a microwave than it does on a stove.
However, it’s usually not a good idea to microwave eggs that are still inside their shells. This is because pressure can quickly build up inside them, and they may exploder.
Cooking makes a few supplements more absorbable:
Cooking eggs makes them more secure to eat, and it additionally makes a portion of their supplements simpler to process.
One illustration of this is the protein in eggs.
Studies have shown it turns out to be more absorbable when it's warmed.
Truth be told, one investigation tracked down that the human body could utilize 91% of the protein in cooked eggs, contrasted with just 51% in crude eggs.
This adjustment of absorbability is thought to happen in light of the fact that warmth causes underlying changes in the egg proteins.
In crude eggs, the huge protein compounds are discrete from one another and nestled into perplexing, curved constructions.
At the point when the proteins are cooked, heat breaks the powerless bonds that hold them fit as a fiddle.
The proteins at that point structure new bonds with different proteins around them. These new bonds in the cooked egg are simpler for your body to process.
You can see these progressions happening as the egg white and yolk change from a thick gel to rubbery and firm.
The protein in crude eggs can likewise meddle with the accessibility of the micronutrient biotin.
Eggs are a decent wellspring of biotin, which is a significant supplement utilized in fat and sugar digestion. It's otherwise called nutrient B7, or nutrient H.
In crude eggs, a protein in the egg whites called avidin ties to biotin, making it inaccessible for your body to utilize.
Nonetheless, when eggs are cooked, the warmth makes primary changes avidin, making it less viable at restricting to biotin. This makes biotin simpler to ingest. - Published by The Beyond News (Food & Health).