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Common questions

Is eggs healthy?

eggs scores 28/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in eggs?

eggs lists 18 ingredients, starting with Protein, Vitamin d, Choline, Vitamin a and Vitamin B12. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does eggs contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in eggs’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is eggs?

eggs is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does eggs compare to other eggs?

At 28/100 eggs scores worse than most eggs we have scored. A higher-scoring option in eggs is Vital Farms Organic Pasture-Raised Large Eggs at 100/100.

Is eggs organic?

eggs is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.