Free-range Eggs are Better for your Health

January/February 2006

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MATTHEW T. STALLBAUMER

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New research on free-range eggs provides more evidence that industrial agriculture is producing substandard food. Tests of eggs from four free-range flocks found that, compared to U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrient data for eggs from confinement production systems, the eggs from chickens raised on free range were much more nutritious ? up to twice as rich in vitamin E, two to six times richer in beta carotene (a form of vitamin A) and four times richer in omega-3 fatty acids. And, the free-range eggs averaged only half as much cholesterol as the USDA data indicates for confinement-system eggs.

The testing was conducted by Skaggs Nutrition Laboratory at Utah State University and
Food Products Laboratory in Portland, Ore., for Mother Earth News magazine.

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2 Comments

DONNA ebright 3/11/2006 12:00:00 AM

I think you need to clarify for the study what constitutes free
range eggs. My understanding is chickens that are able to go out
from chicken house to yard. I know that when my husband worked
shipping eggs, the free range" chickens were just loose in the huge
chicken house and were fed the same feed as those confined in
cages. That wasn't what I considered free range.
Lee Strausberg 3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

For those of us with small spaces and a large amount of
predators can we come up with a list of what the chickens are
eating when they free range so that I can do some of the free
ranging for them or attract the right insects or plant the right
plants. I currently use to large enclosed yards for my chickens.
One yard is always recovering until it again has grass etc... then
I switch.

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