Dream eggs for egg-allergy people
My son has egg allergy. Everytime he sees someone eating eggs, he sadly utters "that looks so good, I wish I could eat it."
His sadness may come to an end, thanks to a group of high-school students in Japan. The egg development team from Harima Agriculture High School, Hyogo, Japan, succeeded to produce the dream eggs that has a low possibility of causing allergy reaction. They experimented many different kinds of feeds for the chicken, and found out that the ones with shiso (perilla) and some fish powder produce eggs containing 5 times of alpha-Linolenic acid, a type of unsaturated fatty acid, which suprresses the allergy.
The team made further improvements and have started to sell it with a brand "Harima Dream Tamago (egg)". The reputation spreaded with word of mouth and last month, a major local department store Hanshin Hyakkaten took it up on the shelf. The eggs are now flying out of shelf.
I wonder if there is anything like this in the U.S., so my son can have the taste of egg.
Original article: MSN Sankei 1/12/08