If you are not used to eating fresh raw egg yolks or fresh raw fish, you should start eating just a tiny bit of it on a daily basis, and then gradually increase the portions. For example: you can start with consuming only a few drops of raw egg yolk daily, during the first 3 days. Then consume half a teaspoon raw egg yolk daily during the next 3 days. The next 3 days one teaspoon raw egg yolk daily. Then 2 teaspoons daily. Then 1 whole raw egg yolk daily and subsequently 2 raw egg yolks daily. Eventually, you can easily eat 5 raw egg yolks daily, which is absolutely perfect to enhance your mood, sleep and menstrual cycle. Fresh raw egg yolk tastes like vanilla, and combines very nicely with avocado. You can also blend different fruits (e.g. banana, orange juice, apple), or tomatoes or orange juice only, and add the egg yolk. Only stir with a fork gently, because egg protein easily gets damaged on molecular level (see site23), even by mixing / blending. You can also add raw egg yolks to cooked potatoes or –rice. Processing fresh raw egg yolk mixed with avocado, potato or rice requires lots of oxygen and strict physical inactivity. If you are a smoker, you might sense a lack of oxygen after having consumed raw egg yolk. Check Freshness Of course you should only consume egg yolk that is really fresh. #1 ALWAYS check the freshness of the egg right before you want to consume the yolk. #2 If you are uncertain about the freshness of an egg, don't eat it. #3 If it smells 'weird', don't eat it. #4 If there is a crack in the shell, don't eat it. #6 To be able to properly judge the freshness of an egg, it's contents need to be at room temperature; eggs that are stored in the fridge and are opened right away seem fresher than they are. The eggs that you want to check freshness of, should be kept outside the fridge for at least an hour prior to opening them. #7 First check all the eggs by rolling them across a flat surface. If they don't roll wobbly, don't consume them. #8 Secondly: shake the eggs; when they dash, don't consume them. #9 Thirdly: Immerse the eggs in a pan of cool, salted water. If it rises to the surface somewhat, don't consume it. If the egg emits a tiny stream of bubbles, don't consume it. (then the shell is porous/contains a hole) #10 and last: Open the egg; If the egg white is watery instead of gel-like, don't consume the egg. If the egg yolk is not convex and firm, don't consume the egg. If the egg yolk easily bursts, don't consume the egg. #11 The first 3 days that you consume fresh raw egg yolk, take only one teaspoon of it, so that your defense system has the time to adapt to the small amount of bacteria in the egg. The next 3 days you can take one whole egg yolk. And the next 3 days after that you can take one yolk more, and so on. That way your defenses system will be properly trained to fight bacteria, so that even if you eat something really bad in the wrong restaurant with your friends, your bowels will maximally move too much while your friends may be seriously ill. Egg yolks that are not that fresh, can also make your bowels move too much. For why consuming fresh raw animal food in general is not dangerous, see Raw = not dangerous Vitamins and Minerals Humans are not supposed to eat plants, but their fruits. Egg yolk is 'the fruit of the egg', containing all the vitamin A, -D, -K and -E and cholesterol, and most iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium and iodide. For exact nutrient-contents of 50 g egg yolk, click here Of all proteinous foods, egg yolk contains most vitamins and minerals; Vitamin- and mineral contents of different proteinous foods are compared below. Contents have been indexed to the highest level ( = 100 ). Original contents have been taken from : Souci, S.W. et al, Food Composition and Nutrition Tabels ,Medpharm Scientific Publishers Stuttgart 1994. Cheese calcium contents have been disregarded for being far too high. (seesite4) vit.B2 vit.B5 vit.B8 vit.B9 iron calcium 100 100 100 100 100 100 egg yolk 9 6 24 47 94 Brazil nut 43 27 14 2 14 9 salmon 40 18 9 14 29 tuna 90 12 8 1 14 9 mackerel 65 16 6 2 30 4 beef, muscles 58 19 9 2 15 2 pork, muscles 38 17 7 16 28 45 wheat whole meal bread 88 8 571 Edam cheese, 30% vit.E vit.B1 selen. magnesium 75 29 18 10 egg yolk 100 100 100 100 Brazil nut 29 17 25 18 salmon 16 80 tuna 16 13 38 19 mackerel 6 23 5 beef, muscles 5 90 8 17 pork, muscles 11 86 8 58 wheat whole meal bread 5 21 37 Edam cheese, 30% Zinc vit.B3 vit.B6 vit.B12 89 1 31 22 egg yolk 93 2 11 0 Brazil nut 19 89 100 32 salmon 100 47 47 tuna 89 64 100 mackerel 100 89 19 56 beef, muscles 47 59 58 23 pork, muscles 49 41 8 0 wheat whole meal bread 0 1 0 Edam cheese, 30% Don't consume raw egg white. Egg white is comparable to the womb, ovaries and oviduct, containing the same substances as are produced in the human oviduct (which is enhanced by progesterone (avidine), respectively estrogen (ovomucoid)); - Avidine in raw egg-white de-activates vitamin B8 (biotine). - Ovomucoid in raw egg-white inhibits trypsin, an enzyme that decomposes absorbed nutrients. Also do not consume the 'bag' containing the yolk and the string attached to it; hold the whole yolk in your fingers, make a small cut, and drain the yolk. Chlesterol & Trans-fatty Acids Don't eggs contain too much cholesterol ? Absolutely not, if consumed raw. (and biologically bred) Because natural raw eggs contain so much clean cholesterol, eggs are excellentbrainfood. Only damaged cholesterol (due to heat) is bad, and causes vascular diseases. Unfortunately, egg yolk from chickens fed prepared / recycled grains, or other (even animal-) -foods, contains damaged cholesterol and trans-fatty acids. You will not taste this in prepared eggs, but consuming raw egg yolk, you probably will, and this probably will cause nausea. Be sure to buy eggs from farmers feeding their hens natural raw grains.
#5 Don't wash the eggs before storing them
You can add fresh raw egg yolks to fruit shakes, but only add them AFTER you have mixed the fruits in a blender. After adding the yolks, only stir with a fork. (blended yolks can cause acne too, and if you are very susceptible to acne, even blended banana can cause acne)
You can also just add the fresh raw yolks to fresh orange juice, and stir with a fork.
You don't really taste the egg yolks, except that they make the shake taste creamy and a bit vanilla-like. Bon appetite!
Not the Egg-white and Not the ‘Bag’
The San Juan Islands have become a rural escape for the very rich and others who will pay $40 to get their car on the ferry. There was a time when they were “undiscovered.” The agricultural value of the land in the early 1970s wasn’t much — four or five hundred bucks an acre — and if you had other sources of income and the time, you could act like a farmer and raise chickens or sheep or horses. This was an attractive lifestyle for my young family of six.
Lopez Island in those days had a few farmers and commercial fishermen, whose families had been “Lopezians” for generations and still worked and lived there. The look of the place had not changed for a hundred years: gently rolling hayfields bordered by woods. Seattle’s economy was still dominated by “Boeings.” Downtown Seattle considered itself grand with two pricy Italian restaurants (Rosellini's 410 and 610) and a couple of steak and chop houses. The Seattle Symphony was mediocre. There was little theatre. The sidewalks were empty by 8 at night. Bill Gates (a teenager) was a student of mine at Lakeside School, where I taught English.
My grandmother had died and left me some money. Big surprise! Let’s buy a farm! Why not? So, true to our impulsive selves, we bought the first place the real estate agent showed us. No one had lived there for several years. The vegetation had grown exponentially and the place had a softened feel. My wife, Gwenyth, loved it at first sight and I went along. There was a house and several outbuildings, large and small, that, in the surprising afternoon’s slanted sunlight at the end of a cloudy day, delighted me while I was looking at the place. It was glorious. I was reminded of Wyeth watercolors.
I was the perfect patsy for this place. Right after I had signed the papers, I was leaning against one of the mossy split-cedar fence posts, admiring the whole thing, when the post snapped off at the ground. I almost fell flat on my face. The nearer posts, attached to the rusted barbed wire, sagged and I soon realized that they were all rotten. But they had looked so good! Lesson one: what you see is not necessarily what you get. We had yet to discover the chimney plugged with a bird’s nest, the solidified septic tank, and the earthy-tasting water from the shallow dug well.
Back in Seattle, Gwen and I thought, “Let’s start with chickens.” I concurred. She found an ag magazine and ordered some.
This is what happens when you buy day-old-chicks through the mail. The chick producer calls you the morning they ship to be sure that you will be there to receive them. The day-old chicks arrived in the hands of our postman in what looked like a very large pizza box, with vents. In the box were 50 New Jersey Giants, at these stage only little balls of yellow fluff. They were peeping away, I thought maybe trying to figure out where they had fetched up. The postman was shaken and gladly handed the box over to my wife.
“Man, am I ever glad to be rid of this,” he said to Gwen, who had her arms out to receive the carton. “I been driving around with it in the back of my truck all morning and I just know that what’s in there is alive.”
Gwen took the box from him, walked into the kitchen, and cautiously opened it. Baby chicks, alive alive O, making peeping and whistling sounds, they were, already pecking for something to eat. The fact that the cardboard gave up no nutrients whatsoever hinted both at the chick’s pre-programmed behavior and their limited intelligence. Nothing suggested that they would become Giants, from New Jersey or anyplace else.
But they might just do well at the derelict farm on Lopez Island. Neither of us had ever raised chickens. This did not daunt our enthusiasm. We sent for literature from the local County Agent of the Department of Agriculture. I bought a huge stockman’s manual and found plans for a fenced-in chicken coop. We would have fresh eggs. What would happen to the chickens at the end of the summer when school resumed? Question unasked. Why did we think we needed 50 eggs a day? I have no idea.
As we watched these miraculous babies it became apparent that of the 50 chicks shipped from the producer, only 49 were up and running. One had keeled over. Surrounded by all the other chicks that cared not a peep that it was there, it lay still, with its eyes closed, out cold on the floor of the pizza box.
It looked dead to me but I had never before seen a dead chick. I had read that new-born chicks need warmth, and it being a chilly April day, guessed one had succumbed to chick hypothermia. Without hesitation (but with slightly rising gorge) I picked up the dead chick by its little leg and said, “I will dispose of it.” I started to walk toward the garbage pail.
