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Micronutrients & recovery
Eggs provide high nutritional value and bioactive compounds that support health across the lifespan, including benefits for satiety, immune function, and potential disease prevention.
Eggs are a nutrient-dense food suitable for all ages. They provide essential proteins, vitamins, and bioactive peptides that support immune function and overall health. If you have an egg allergy, consult a specialist, as many children outgrow it.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Egg remains a food product of high nutritional quality for adults including elderly people and children... egg also contains many and still-unexplored bioactive compounds, which may be of high interest in preventing/curing diseases.
Why this rating
Supported by extensive data on nutrient composition and in vitro/in vivo studies on bioactive peptides.
Source
The Golden Egg: Nutritional Value, Bioactivities, and Emerging Benefits for Human Health
Sophie Réhault‐Godbert et al. · Nutrients · 2019
DOI 10.3390/nu11030684
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Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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