Message Number: SG11600 | New FHL Archives Search
From: me@shona.org
Date: 2004-11-27 13:17:29 UTC
Subject: egg whites
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2090731.1101561449828.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Egg whites are only a problem when fed by themselves regularly. Egg yolk contains enough biotin to counteract the effect, so feeding whole raw eggs is fine.

Biotin deficiency is only likely to occur when someone is fed a high amount of JUST egg whites (some sources say 24 egg whites per day for humans to be affected).

http://www.provet.co.uk/health/diseases/eggwhite.htm
http://www.iowaegg.org/allabouteggs/biotin.html

shona