Eggs

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Indian Minister To Schoolkids: No Eggs For You!

4:41pm July 09, 2015

by Deepak Singh

Growing up in India, Deepak Singh loved eggs. He sang the jingle, "Sunday or Monday, make every day an egg day." So he was sad to hear that eggs have been banned from school lunches in Madhya Pradesh.

Eating eggs with your salad helps boost absorption of carotenoids — the pigments in tomatoes and carrots.

Dynamic Duos: How To Get More Nutrition By Pairing Foods

4:00pm June 29, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

Adding eggs to salads helps us absorb the beneficial pigments like beta carotene in the raw vegetables, a new study finds. Here are other foods that, when eaten together, pack a more nutritious punch.

Cartons of eggs are stacked on shelves at Laurenzo's Italian Center, May 21, 2015, in Miami.

National

For Bakers And Restaurants, Egg Supply Is Getting Ugly

1:59pm June 12, 2015

by Peggy Lowe

Commercial bakers and restaurants use liquid egg in dozens of foods, from cakes to mayonnaise. But the price has shot up 240 percent since May, as U.S. poultry farms reel from an avian flu outbreak.

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Prices for wholesale eggs doubled in May, while prices for shell eggs in grocery stores have also risen.

Avian Flu Outbreak Has U.S. Bakers Begging For Europe's Eggs

4:59pm June 03, 2015

by Peggy Lowe

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will allow pasteurized egg imports from the Netherlands to alleviate dwindling supplies and higher prices from the ongoing outbreak on U.S. poultry farms.

A gate blocks the entrance of a farm operated by Daybreak Foods, on May 17, 2015 near Eagle Grove, Iowa. The facility was reportedly struck by the current outbreak of bird flu. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsick says biosecurity measures are crucial to

Secretary Of Agriculture: Bird Flu Poses 'No Health Issue' To Humans

12:12pm May 31, 2015

The largest outbreak of avian flu in U.S. history is ravaging poultry at farms in the Midwest. Sec. Tom Vilsack says there's no risk of transmission to humans, but egg prices may rise.

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A farm in Iowa plans to slaughter more than five million chickens in response to an outbreak of bird flu.

National

Iowa Farm To Kill 5 Million Chickens In Effort To Contain Avian Flu

3:04pm May 12, 2015

by Miles Parks

This is the worst outbreak since the H5N2 influenza was first detected in December. The disease has been found in seven other states over the past five months.

Arts

Does Your Food Have A Bad Case Of The Blahs? Put An Egg On It!

6:21pm April 08, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

If you're wondering what to do with all those eggs left over from Easter, we're here to help. Inspired by Portlandia and Beyonce, we'll show you ways you can put an egg on it.

Free-range houses allow chickens to move around freely, but operating costs were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, according to a new study.

Cramped Chicken Cages Are Going Away. What Comes Next?

3:57pm March 19, 2015

by Dan Charles

The results are in from a long-running study of three different ways to house egg-laying chickens. It found that more hens survive in cages, and cages are cheaper. But consumers prefer cage-free eggs.

Steve Kudlacek is an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine who helped Professor Greg Weiss develop a way to unboil an egg.

Science

How Unboiled Eggs Could Help Fight Food Waste

11:05am February 05, 2015

by Alison Bruzek

No yolk: Researchers have discovered how to unboil egg whites. The chemical technique could help the food industry and others utilize more enzymes for cheese or beer with less waste.

"The egg is a lens through which to view the entire craft of cooking," says food writer Michael Ruhlman.

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No Yolk: Eggs Beat Most Other Foods In Our Blog Last Year

1:13pm January 02, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

We looked back at the most popular posts of 2014 and found many of them were about eggs. So we asked: What makes this everyday food so intriguing?