Eating Eggs Keeps You Fuller For Longer - Official!

The latest research from the USA shows that eating eggs for breakfast can help to limit your calorie intake for the rest of the day by more than 400 calories!

When two groups of women were fed two different breakfasts, the group eating the breakfast that contained two eggs went on to eat 400 calories less throughout the rest of the day when compared to the other group.

The research, carried out at the Rochester Centre for Obesity, USA, followed overweight and obese women to see whether what they ate for breakfast had a bearing on what they ate for the rest of the day. The women were given either an egg-based-breakfast or a bagel-based-breakfast - the breakfasts were equal in calories and contained almost identical levels of protein. The subsequent calorie intake that the women ate over the next 36 hours was recorded.

“These results are startling. This research tells us that eating eggs for breakfast makes you feel fuller for longer, to such an extent that the women who had eggs for breakfast, ate on average 417 calories less than the bagel group, in the following 36 hours,” said Cath MacDonald, nutritionist for the British Egg Information Service (BEIS).

‘And, looking at the data from the research, it wasn’t even just the protein that was affecting their calorie intake, it was the eggs themselves. Fantastic for all those overweight women who need to lose a few pounds at the start of the spring season.’

This research supports the anecdotal evidence that eggs are a filling, nutritious and tasty food that are great when included in a balanced diet.

This new research follows news on both the heart health and food safety front. The Foods Standards Agency has confirmed that there is no limit to the number of eggs you can eat in a week, as part of a healthy balanced diet. And, British Lion eggs are now produced to the highest standards of food safety in the world. Lion eggs come from British hens vaccinated against salmonella and carry a best before date on the egg shell and box showing that they are fresher than required by law.