Eggs are a popular breakfast entrée and are also used in many baked dishes. Egg yolks are high in cholesterol, leading many people to prefer egg whites to the yolk. What is the nutritional value of egg whites, and how can you cook with them?

Nutrition Information
The yolk contains the fat and cholesterol content of an egg. If you want to get the nutrition of egg without the less-healthy nutrients, take out the yolk before cooking with eggs.

‌When you take away the yolk, you lose many vitamins like A, D, E, K, as well as DHA. Egg whites have fewer calories and no fat. The white of an egg has:

• 4 grams of protein
• 55 milligrams of sodium
• 1.3 micrograms of folate
• 6.6 micrograms of selenium
• 2.3 milligrams of calcium
• 3.6 milligrams of magnesium
• 4.9 milligrams of phosphorus