Salted Duck Eggs And Their Contens

Steemian friends. Come on, who knew that duck eggs were only blue or green?

If you are one of them, let's try reading again. The color of duck eggs is white, some are even black. This depends on the type of duck.

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Most ducks in Indonesia are the balido type, which produces blue eggs. However, Peking ducks in China and muscovy ducks in Europe have white eggs. Well, the color of these eggs is different, because of the color pigments. Duck egg blue itself comes from the greenish blue bilisortin pigment, also known as turf.

Bilisertin is a bile pigment compound which functions to color egg shells. So, you already know that Brebes is the city that pioneered salted eggs in Indonesia. That's why salted eggs are a typical souvenir from the city of Brebes.

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Well, salted eggs were first introduced to a husband and wife from the bamboo country of China around the 1950s. Behind the delicious taste of duck meat and eggs, it is a food source of very high cholesterol. Even if we eat duck meat without skin, the cholesterol is still high.

So, approximately one small cup of duck meat contains around 120-180 milligrams of cholesterol. Even though we usually consume duck meat, maybe two to three cups of that size. The recommendation is that cholesterol consumption should be below 150 milligrams per day. Duck eggs actually have 2-3 times the cholesterol content of chicken eggs.

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So, if you consume one duck egg, your cholesterol level could reach 200-350 milligrams, depending on the size. Even though they are high in cholesterol, salted eggs and duck meat are also high in protein. So you can still consume it, but not too much or too often, bro. And don't balance it out with lots of food and vegetables.

Greetings always compact.

By @midiagam