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If you were a rat, what would you want to look like…Rat A on the left or Rat B on the right?
It seems pretty obvious that Rat A is frisky, happy, and healthy in a normal, rat sort of way, while Rat B looks like he is on death’s door.
As it turns out, the rats’ exterior differences are a physical manifestation of their diet. (1)
Egg Whites vs Real Eggs
Guess what these little guys are eating?
Healthy Rat A is eating whole eggs.
Sickly Rat B is eating Egg Beaters, aka “liquid egg whites”.
How can this be? Processed egg whites are lab-synthesized to match the nutrition in a whole egg.
Developed in the 1970s, Egg Beaters has the same protein, fat, calories, macro minerals, and vitamins as Real Eggs! (2)
Marketed as a “healthy” egg substitute, liquid egg whites like Egg Beaters are routinely served to nursing home residents and is a typical breakfast choice of older Americans seeking to limit cholesterol and saturated fat.
The problem is when you take out the saturated fat and cholesterol from eggs and substitute vegetable seeds oils, nonfat milk, additives, chemicals, and a host of synthetic vitamins and feed it to adolescent rats what do you get?
The result is very sad looking rats like Rat B above.
Not only do these rats eating a factory food like Egg Beaters look unhealthy, they do not develop properly and have mangy looking fur.
In fact, rats fed eating processed egg whites develop diarrhea within one week and die within 3-4 weeks.
Clearly, Mother Nature does not recognize Egg Beaters as food in any way, shape, or form, despite “the science” claiming otherwise.
Egg White Diet
What about Rat A above and rats like him who eat whole eggs? These rats go on to develop properly and live out normal little rat lives.
Are you or a relative eating Egg Beaters thinking it is a better choice for your health?
Set the marketing mumbo jumbo and misleading doctor-speak about saturated fat and cholesterol aside for a minute and just look at the picture!
Make the call with simple common sense.
Doesn’t it seem downright foolish to eat processed egg whites if that stuff can make a young rat look like that within one week?
Perhaps it might help you to know that a 2024 review of the scientific literature on eggs found that eggs do not contribute to heart attacks, and for consumers to be aware of the false media narratives demonizing egg yolks.
Eggs are incredibly healthy and make a great contribution to a balanced diet. They have antioxidants and notably decrease triglyceride levels. Egg-predominantly carbohydrate-deficient meals show the best improvement in lipid levels when compared to similar eggless controls. Avoid discarding egg yolks, as they contain antioxidants, essential fatty acids, proteins, vitamins, and minerals that contribute to a healthy and balanced diet. Also, consumers must be aware of the media game, which portrays the illusion that eating their highly processed junk food [like Egg Beaters] is not as bad because the healthy egg yolks are also bad, despite the truth being that egg yolks are good for health. (3)
Dr. Mark Hyman MD agrees! (4)
Not only does the cholesterol in egg yolks not cause heart attacks, but omitting them from the diet by misguidedly eating only egg whites is a loss of critical nutrients that has huge negative implications for health.
Liquid Egg Whites for Convenience in Recipes?
What if you know that yolks are healthy, and you use whole eggs for omelettes and the like, but simply use liquid egg whites in cartons for convenient use in recipes (like meringues, angel food cake, etc.)?
In those situations, I would still advise against using packaged liquid egg whites from the store.
The reason is that the packaging is toxic!
The cartons (such as the popular cage-free 100% liquid egg whites) are lined with a thin layer of plastic, which adds an unwelcome dose of microplastics to the mix.
Thus, while it takes a bit extra time, it is still best to separate shelled eggs to use fresh egg whites in recipes that call for them.
Keep the extra yolks in a glass dish with a lid (they will keep for up to 4 days) until you use them up in smoothies, crème brûlée, eggs benedict, or other dishes.
(1-2) Morning Nourishment: Bountiful Benefits and Creative Ideas
(3) Debunking the Myth: Eggs and Heart Disease
(4) Eggs Do Not Cause Heart Attacks
More Information
Five Fats You Must Have in Your Kitchen
Why Organic Store Eggs are a Scam
What Oxidizes the Cholesterol in Eggs
Are Raw Egg Whites Healthy?
Duck Eggs: Even More Nutritious!
Awesome article. We had a free coupon for egg beaters once, so I bought them and made them. My family was so disgusted and refused to eat them. Thank goodness!
I agree completely that whole food is the only “real” food. Thanks for sharing all your great insight.
Do you have any opinions on protein powders or shakes for workout recovery? I’d love to get your thoughts.
Protein powders/shakes and the like is not real food. I have a post on why these foods are dangerous as well if you do a search using the words protein powder in the search box at the top of the blog.
Egg Beaters: Food for Fools – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/w9Qvt0NE
Never thought of buying or consuming this junk. Yuck!
Reminds me of the lab experiment where one group of rats was fed corn flakes and the other group was fed the corn flakes box. By the time box group was starting to die, the corn flakes group was already completely dead after having become insane.
Wow. I didn’t know that, but it certainly makes me glad that I’ve NEVER eaten cornflakes, I never will!
<3 this.
Egg Beaters: Food for Fools – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/oXH0IkYf
I maybe bought one carton of Egg Beaters during my family’s lowfat low cholesterol craze.. then we went on to do 1 egg/1 egg white instead in our scrambled eggs. Then we scrapped this, too, and just ate real eggs!!! Now I’m happy to buy local pastured eggs and have 2-3 every day!!
Just make sure if you are eating eggs every day that you are not always cooking them. Eggs every day is good, but some days out of the week they should be raw. Throw them in a smoothie, that’s the easiest way. If you can handle frying them in coconut oil but only just barely, then you may be okay.
Great way of getting sick eating raw eggs. And please don’t give me the ole “organic” BS, Just because they are organic, you can still get sick.
you Are suppose to wash the eggs before you crack them open to remove any potential contaminates you know. and never eat an egg, cooked or not, that has a crack of any size…. whether or not you keep them in the fridge…
i make my own mayo and ceasar dressing with raw, gasp, eggs straight from the dirty chicken’s um…. and it keeps in the fridge for a week. maybe i should lie down and be sick?
It really is sad that people still buy into this. I have one family member in particular who’s health continues to decline, and she continues to do even MORE to make it worse. But she’s doing it at the direction of her doctor. She’s always so proud of herself when she adds another fake food to her diet. Egg Beaters, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Canola Oil….Aaaack!
She thinks I’ve gone off the deep end because I drink raw milk. LOL!
Reminds me of my dad who suffers from diabietes, (don’t think I spelled that right) and he continues to think his doctor has his best interest at heart. His fat intake is restricted and he has to take meds daily. My mom and I have tried to tell him some of the things we know about real food, but he’s too set in his ways to listen. I won’t keep telling a person who chooses not to listen.
Umm….Canola Oil is not fake food…
canola is highly processed and certainly far from healthy.
canola oil is made from a multy step chemical process from ‘rapeseed’…. i mean would you buy into Rape Oil?… so change the name to make it sound better… it is fake. if you can’t cold press it to get oil, it is fake.
This stuff just kills me – so many people don’t *get it* and continue to buy into the marketing ploys.
This picture is downright hilarious. I tried Egg Beaters many years ago when I didn’t know any better, but was very unimpressed with them. My family and I are big egg eaters and there’s no way that I would feed them this fake stuff. Funny how people still think low-fat and low-cholesterol foods are healthy, yet people are more unhealthy now then they ever were. I’ll pass on the fake foods.