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" You know you&amp;#039;ll do better going after one made somewhere else \u2014 the local place you grew up by, the family-owned shop by your office, or, hell, even the dingy hole-in-the-wall deli by your apartment. You know that, objectively, the reasons to buy your breakfast sandwich at McDonald&amp;#039;s aren&amp;#039;t particularly numerous, but you&amp;#039;ve still done it before, as we all have. This is their new, supposedly &amp;quot;premium&amp;quot; option: a yolk-free Egg McMuffin, debuting nationwide on April 22. Dubbed the &amp;quot;Egg White Delight,&amp;quot; it boasts a whopping 40 calories less than its yolksy cousin and will lead a company initiative for egg whites to be an available option for any egg order on the menu. Options are good, right? And this is a presumably a more &amp;quot;premium,&amp;quot; health-conscious one from a brand criticized pretty much daily by consumers and health and food writers alike (guilty...) for being loaded with calories, preparing their food poorly, and overall just not being good for you \u2014 y&amp;#039;know, because it&amp;#039;s fast food. But if they want to sell it as a &amp;quot;premium option,&amp;quot; as their communications manager Tyler Litchenberger describes it, McDonald&amp;#039;s is going about it all wrong. Yes, egg yolks have more cholesterol, but they&amp;#039;ve also got a ton of vitamins and nutrients you don&amp;#039;t get just from eating the whites. For the night-shift workers out there who don&amp;#039;t see the sun very often, egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain vitamin D. As for the cholesterol-raising fears, fear not, because the myth was debunked long ago. If you&amp;#039;re still worried, I hate to break it to you, but breakfast sandwiches are never going to be an easy sell: They&amp;#039;re too mind-blowingly delicious in the morning, you feel like you&amp;#039;re getting away with murder and lingering, bite after bite, on the crime scene. But if you&amp;#039;re going to have one, you better do it right. Get one from a place where the person making it might actually recognize your face. And, seriously, if you must buy one from McDonald&amp;#039;s, damn the 40 calories and just go for the one you know has more flavor. You&amp;#039;re already inside a McDonald&amp;#039;s anyway. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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