Hard Boiled Eggs Nutritional Facts

Hard-boiled eggs are great at breakfast or for lunch on the go, but you may be concerned about the amount of fat and cholesterol in eggs. You can make room for the occasional egg in your diet once you know the facts.

Calories

• One large hard-boiled egg (50g) contains 77 calories.

Macronutrients

• A hard-boiled egg contains 5g of fat, which includes 2g of saturated fat. The egg also contains 6g of protein and 1g of carbohydrates.

Vitamins

• Eggs are a good source of riboflavin; each egg provides 15 percent of the recommended daily value. Eggs also provide vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, and vitamin A (9 percent, 7 percent and 6 percent of the daily value, respectively).

Minerals

• A single egg provides 22 percent of the recommended daily value of selenium and 9 percent of the recommended daily value of phosphorus.

Cholesterol

• One egg contains 213g of cholesterol, which is 71 percent of the recommended amount of cholesterol (300g) a healthy adult should consume in a day. If you have heart disease or diabetes, the recommended limit is just 200g per day, so Thomas Behrenbeck, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, suggests eating just one egg and avoiding other foods high in cholesterol that day.