Healthy Easter How many eggs are children allowed to eat each day?

Easter: so many eggs can children eat
An Easter without eggs is hard to imagine. Especially children love the colorful chicken eggs, which in addition to valuable protein also contain important minerals and vitamins. However, they should not consume too much of it.

Basic food with valuable minerals and vitamins
Eggs are a staple food for many people. In addition to the important protein, chicken eggs also contain valuable minerals such as iron and zinc and vitamins A, E and K. Eggs are booming at Easter. Especially children love them, no matter if hard-boiled Easter eggs, scrambled eggs or fried eggs. But too much of it is unhealthy.

Roasted or cooked: Most kids love eggs. However, they should not eat too much. At Easter it may be quiet but sometimes more than usual. (Image: womue / fotolia.com)

At Easter it may also be more eggs
Adults are often advised not to consume more than two eggs per day due to supposedly unhealthy cholesterol. However, many experts have lifted such warnings about eggs and butter.

Therefore, as a healthy person you do not have to worry about the cholesterol in these foods. And on special occasions like Easter, three eggs are okay.

Children should, however, eat much less of it. In a message from the dpa news agency, an expert explains how much the little ones are allowed to consume.

Up to two eggs a week
For children, the following recommendations are generally valid: Between the ages of one and three years, one to two eggs per week are fine, and four to six year olds have two eggs.

It should be noted, however, that processed eggs in noodles or biscuits are already included in this information.

"If, for example, children eat more at Easter, it does not have any health consequences," explains nutritionist Nadia Röwe from the Young Family Network, which belongs to the Federal Center for Nutrition, in the agency report.

According to the expert, individual deviations are not so bad if the weekly average is approximately correct.

Healthy body regulates cholesterol alone
According to Röwe, parents generally do not have to worry about cholesterol levels. The regulate the body mostly alone.

However, the regulation of cholesterol level does not work properly in people with diabetes or a disorder in fat metabolism. Such patients - possibly including children - should therefore be very cautious with their egg consumption.

An elevated blood cholesterol level can cause arteriosclerosis, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke in the worst case scenario.

Nadia Röwe spoke to another reason, which speaks for a moderate egg consumption: "The yolk, however, contains relatively much fat," said the nutritionist.

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