How Many Calories in an Egg?

Updated 06.12.2011
In this post I will answer the question on how many calories in an egg.

Eggs are natures’ treasure trove for protein and smart fats. Especially organic, or free-range omega 3 eggs are an extremely valuable, nutritious food.

When on a calorie restricted diet, you might want to know the answer to this question:

How many calories in an egg?
Short answer:

And now for the longer, more detailed answer…
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How Many Calories in an Egg?

Calories in an egg can be quite important for those on a fat loss diet. Sometimes counting calories may be necessary, and then you’ll need the information on how many kilo calories in your food per 100 gram, or per each serving, as in the case of an egg.
For general calorie guidelines, check out my post on How Many Calories Should I Eat?

Should you want the comprehensive answer, you can find that over on my good colleague Kris’ blog right here: How much protein in an egg?

If you lift weights or otherwise exercise, you might want to up the protein in your diet somewhat, and eggs are an awesome –and above all natural– way to do that. So if protein shakes are just not your thing, try adding some eggs instead.

Quick weight loss and muscle building tip: try one hard boiled egg every hour…nothing else! This is not a long term thing, of course, but in the short term it can help melt the fat fast and it’s reportedly highly anabolic! (muscle building!)

I’ve done this myself quite a few times and must say that hunger is really not a problem. The protein intake is not so very high with this approach: if you calculate about 7 gram per egg on average, you get about 110 gram/day. BUT this is highest quality protein, and it definitely seems to be enough.

Eggs are SMART!

Know the term egghead? No, that probably has nothing to do with it. But the fats in eggs are smart fats: extremely healthy and only good for you.
The myth that eggs are bad because they contain cholesterol has long since been debunked.

Eggs DO contain cholesterol, but they have HDL cholesterol, and this is one of the good guys… actually a MAJOR Good Guy!

HDL is good for your heart, and will help boost testosterone in men.

I’m on a pretty low-cal diet myself at the moment, and I was thinking how to increase my natural protein intake without adding too many calories?

Then I got it: egg whites!
In case you were wondering, there’s only about 18 calories in one large egg white! It follows that the egg yolk then has around 54 calories.

Generally speaking it’s best to have eggs whole, including the valuable egg yolk, since that’s where all the smart fats are. But having the whites only is a great way to save a lot of calories, while getting some top-quality natural protein.

That’s of course when you boil them. If you for example fry them in a bunch of oil, you increase the calorie count dramatically.

How many calories in an egg, the extended version:

Long story short: eggs should be a main staple of your diet, they’re good for you, plain and simple.

And especially egg whites are a high protein, ultra-low calorie food.
BTW, here’s the nutrition and supplementation page, with links to my best posts on the topic.

Mark

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4 Comments

• Tony - Coach Calorie says:

  December 7, 2011 at 6:06 PM

  Love eggs. As you said, they are brain food because they contain essential fatty acids – specifically DHA, which makes up 60% of the brain and nervous system.

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  • Mark says:

    December 7, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    Yebbs: eggs are SMART!

    Thanks Tony!

    Mark

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• Rohit Chhetri says:

  April 5, 2012 at 11:16 AM

  This fact about egg is more helpful,i like it. Thanks.

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  • Mark says:

    April 5, 2012 at 12:46 PM

    Welcome!

    Mark

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