On Food and Cooking

hours. Since the embryo needs air, the shell is riddled (especially at the blunt end) with some 10,000 pore ...

in diameter. Cuticle and Color The hen’s finishing touch on her egg is a thin proteinaceous cuticle. This coa ...

Araucanas and brown-egg breeds make both blue and brown pigments and thus green shells. The completed egg i ...

the orange pigment in carrots and other plant foods, but from plant pigments called xanthophylls (p. 267), whi ...

of jade. We see the first layer of structure whenever we cut into a hard-cooked egg. Where ...

The structure of the hen’s egg. The egg white provides physical and chemical protection for the living germ ...

and thicker. Salt breaks apart the light- deflecting sub-spheres into components that are too small to deflect ...

blood to monitor our cholesterol levels. Stand back from all these spheres within spheres and the picture becomes l ...

The White Next to the yolk’s riches, the white seems colorless and bland. It accounts for nearly two thirds of ...

water and protein. But biochemical studies have revealed that the albumen proteins are no ...

Ovalbumin 54 Ovotransferrin 12 Ovomucoid 11 Globulins 8 Lysozyme 3.5 Ovomucin 1.5 Avidin 0.06 Others 10 Protein Natural Function ...

viruses Avidin Binds vitamin (biotin) Others Bind vitamins (2+); block digestive enzymes (3+)... Protein Culinary P ...

proteins are especially important for the cook and worth knowing by name. Ovomucin accounts for less than 2 ...

Ovalbumin, the most plentiful egg protein, was the first protein ever crystallized in the laboratory (in 1890), ...

heated, and so determines the temperature at which eggs set. The setting temperature is higher for whole eggs th ...

causes laboratory animals to lose weight.) It’s unmatched as a balanced source of the amino acids necessary ...

embryo must construct many millions before it hatches. There is some variability in the cholesterol conte ...

to be any reason to bother counting our weekly yolks. Of course, eggs shouldn’t displace positively heart-prot ...

Fertilized Eggs Despite folklore to the contrary, there is no detectable nutritional difference between un ...

duck embryos do contain more calcium than the eggs that they developed from. The Composition of a U.S. L ...