Which are better for you? brown or white eggs?!
Why are some eggs brown and some eggs white?
Thanks in advance for all responses.
Answers: my dad says to always get white eggs but they dont come in jumbo.
Why are some eggs brown and some eggs white?
Thanks in advance for all responses.
Let me ask you a question: If you had a baby, what color would it be?
I'm not a magician. I don't know your ethnicity. But I can safely assume that your kid is going to have a skin tone similar to your own (interracial unions aside for the moment).
The same is true in the chicken world. White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. Most of the eggs in your supermarket come from the following breeds of chickens: the White Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire, and the Plymouth Rock.
White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.
Let's get weird for a second and pretend you have a chicken sitting beside you. Imagine this crazy chicken is kind of an off-white brownish yellow. You're no chicken expert and you have no idea what breed you're looking at. Here's the secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes. This is true stuff. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.
A natural follow-up question would be "Is one color of egg healthier than the other?" According to the Egg Nutrition Center in Washington, D.C., the answer is a pretty firm "no". The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor. They say the reason brown eggs cost more is because the brown-egg variety of chickens are bigger eaters and cost more to feed. The cost is then pushed forward to the consumer. I happen to believe the real reason is that the health food industry is perpetuating the myth that brown eggs are healthier. There, I said it.
Both are the same. The color simply reflects the breed of the bird..
I don't think it matters. Just make sure they are free range.
I'm pretty sure you should just look for organic. brown eggs aren't bleached and white eggs are.
I Dont Know..Ive Only Had White...
Both are good
There is no difference between brown eggs and white eggs, they are all good. Sometimes you can get the brown eggs cheaper because of the perceived difference.
there's no difference other than shell pigmentation. eat whichever you prefer.
I've heard that brown eggs are best because they don't crack easily
I think they are the same - just different types of chickens
i had an old roommate who grew up on a farm.. her parent's own a chicken farm. she said there is no real difference.
and also.. free range or not, the government has tight regulations on poultry ..dealing with what they're fed.
bottom line.. if you are concerned about health, take out some yolks. for example, when you make eggs for breakfast, use 4-6 eggs and take out all yolks except for 1 or 2.
White eggs have stuff in them ... I am not sure if it is bleach or not, but it means they have been processed, etc. You can buy brown eggs at the store, but I also know that when you get eggs straight from the chicken (either from people you know who have chickens, or you have your own chickens, like we used to) they are brown, because they haven't been processed, and the chickens haven't been pumped up on crap and all that.
There is nothing wrong with brown eggs, and there really isn't difference in the taste (Though the brown eggs generally taste fresher), although I daresay, because of the processing, the brown eggs are probably better for you. If you can buy them from someone who sells their own eggs, and not through the store, that would be the best. It's more natural that way. :)
i always thought brown because they were organic??? but idk
Their shell is different because of the breed of chicken they come from, no other differences IF the feed and lifestyle of the bird is the same.
If the eggs are from a factory farm as opposed to a free range backyard chicken eating a normal outdoor diet, the free range eggs will have a higher protein content. You'll also notice the shells are harder and don't break as easy, because the calcium level is different. (We have free range chickens who lay brown eggs, mmmm.. :)