Under normal circumstances, healthy adults eat 1-2 duck eggs a day; it is better for the elderly to eat one duck egg a day; it is more suitable for mental workers to eat two duck eggs or duck eggs a day; pregnant women, parturients, and lactating women People with weak health can eat 2-3 duck eggs a day, but not more.

Boiled eggs are the best way to eat them, but they should not be overcooked. The cholesterol content of an egg yolk is 2/3 of the daily cholesterol intake of a healthy adult. By controlling the intake of meat and dairy products, such as eating vegetables without cheese and a lot of fruits, whole grains, low-fat foods and A small amount of lean meat, poultry, and fish will not exceed the cholesterol limit.

A doctoral study at Tokyo Women's University in Japan found that women who often eat duck eggs are more likely to suffer from high cholesterol, stroke, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases than women who rarely eat eggs.

The number and frequency of duck eggs eaten by men had nothing to do with mortality. Cholesterol is an essential substance for human metabolism, but it is necessary to control the daily cholesterol intake below 300 mg.

Extended information:

Duck eggs are sweet and cool in nature and have the effect of nourishing yin and clearing the lungs. It has the functions of beautifying the lungs and skin; it is suitable for patients with physical weakness after illness, hot cough, dry throat and sore throat, high blood pressure, diarrhea and dysentery. Used for diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, and toothache.

Function Nourishing yin, clearing away heat, promoting body fluid and benefiting the stomach. It mainly treats lung yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm, dry and painful throat, stomach yin deficiency, dry mouth and thirst, retching, dry stool, etc.

Nature and flavor are meridional in nature, cool in nature, sweet and salty in taste. Enters the lung and stomach meridians.

Dosage and Oral Ingestion: Decoction or boil, remove the shell and eat, or put it into a bowl and mix well, then brew into duck egg flakes with boiling water.

Tonic application

1. Insufficient lung yin, upward lung qi, spasmodic cough, weak cough. Rock sugar duck egg soup: 2 duck eggs, 50 grams of rock sugar. Pound the rock sugar into crumbs, put it into a large bowl, add boiling water to dissolve it, add the duck eggs after it is cold, mix well, put it in a cage and steam it over high heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Take while warm.

2. Lung yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm, dry mouth and throat. Duck egg and white fungus soup: 1 to 2 duck eggs, 10 grams of white fungus, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the white fungus, put it into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil over a high fire, then simmer over a slow fire until the white fungus soup becomes thicker, break the duck eggs into a bowl and put the rock sugar into the white fungus soup, and cook for a while. . Drink soup, eat white fungus and duck eggs.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Duck Egg