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Reasons to Try
Plant-Based Eggs

A plant-based alternative that offers all the good, none of the bad.

BY VICKI MARTINEZ

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Three Reasons to Try Plant-Based Eggs

A plant-based alternative that offers all the good, none of the bad.

BY VICKI MARTINEZ

 

Ubiquitous in cooking, eggs are a go-to stable across the globe. Consumed by millions, eggs are indeed a great source of protein. Unfortunately, they come with a bit of baggage. They're full of that pesky cholesterol and come from a source that wreaks havoc on the environment.

Fear not. There's no reason to go “cold chicken.” You can continue your plant-based journey, completely avoid baggage claim and still pick up plenty of protein by including plant-based eggs in your diet.

Plant-Based Eggs Are Healthy for You

If there's one area you really want to avoid at baggage claim, it's Carousel #C. (C for cholesterol.)

A Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School, Managing Your Cholesterol, discusses the link between saturated fat and LDLs (the bad cholesterol). The report notes that foods high in cholesterol, including animal products such as meat and dairy, contain large amounts of saturated fat and warns that “saturated fat in the diet clearly does raise LDL by a significant amount and should be consumed in limited quantities.”

Preventative cardiologist Danielle Belardo, M.D., agrees, adding that “eating more plants, swapping out saturated fat for polyunsaturated fat and reducing your dietary cholesterol helps your blood vessels stay healthy while providing blood flow to organs all over your body and has been linked to a decreased risk of heart disease.”

The good news is that you can still have your eggs and eat them too, simply by substituting chicken eggs with a healthy alternative like the mung bean-based eggs from JUST Egg.

Not only are plant-based eggs lower in saturated fat than traditional eggs, but they are also completely cholesterol-free.

 

What About Protein?

By design, a diet filled with fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes is rich in essential vitamins and minerals, healthy carbs and fat, and full of antioxidants. Of course, the one thing you hear most often is that a plant-forward plate, especially one that eliminates animal products, may not have enough protein to meet recommended daily requirements.

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What About Protein?

By design, a diet filled with fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes is rich in essential vitamins and minerals, healthy carbs and fat, and full of antioxidants. Of course, the one thing you hear most often is that a plant-forward plate, especially one that eliminates animal products, may not have enough protein to meet recommended daily requirements.

 
Made from mung beans, an ancient legume, JUST Egg packs a protein profile similar to its poultry counterpart. Another great reason to give plant-based eggs a try.
 
 

Looking for a plant-based alternative for the most important meal of the day? Try JUST Egg for a healthy and balanced meal.

 

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Plant-Based Eggs Are Healthy for the Environment

If you haven't experienced it firsthand, you're aware that checking luggage over the size or weight restrictions for a carry-on often comes at an exorbitant price. The same is true for chicken eggs.

The resources used, greenhouse gases produced and water pollution created by current poultry farm practices are costly to the environment. Exponentially so.

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Plant-Based Eggs Are Healthy for the Environment

If you haven't experienced it firsthand, you're aware that checking luggage over the size or weight restrictions for a carry-on often comes at an exorbitant price. The same is true for chicken eggs.

The resources used, greenhouse gases produced and water pollution created by current poultry farm practices are costly to the environment. Exponentially so.

 

On the other hand, mung bean crops are one of the most sustainable on earth. Mung bean plants:

 
 

water dropUse 98% less water

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Produce 93% fewer CO2 emissions

 

Land iconCan be cultivated using 86% less land

 
 

Are you ready to send chicken eggs packing, bidding them farewell on their journey to the unclaimed baggage warehouse in the sky?

Eat more JUST Egg. Your health (and many a chicken) will thank you (if chickens could talk, that is)!

 
 

Try These Plant-Based Recipes

 
 

frittata

Frittata

Fried Rice

Fried Rice

Breakfast Tacos 

Breakfast Tacos

 
 

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