Do brown eggs taste different than white eggs?!
Answers: In general, are they healthier? What is it that makes them brown? Do they come from certain types of chickens? Or does it have to do with their diet?
Egg shell color makes no difference in taste or nutrition.
Brown eggs just come from a different breed of chicken.
It's a marketing ploy known as a "differentiator" - What makes a product unique from all the other similar products?
However, a chicken's diet effects the nutrition and taste more than the color of the egg. So if you home-raised chickens, I would bet the eggs would taste different than the store bought. If you had both white and brown eggs, they would taste the same if fed the same feed.
They are the same. Different chickens
The only difference between a brown egg and a white egg is the variety of chicken. The molecular structure is the exact same.
Dear Mr Breakfast,
Why are some eggs white and others brown?
Colleen H.
Hi Colleen H!
Good question. Now, 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.
Well Colleen, I hope I answered your question and that I didn't "lay an egg" with my response.
From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:
lay an egg - To fail, or to have one's efforts fall flat: "Jim tried to tell a few jokes, but each time he forgot the punch line and laid an egg."
Your pal,
Mr Breakfast
It's the same thing, taste like each other etc. They do come from different chickens though, next time you might ask a nutritionist what is different about carbs, sugars, fats, etc.
Yes, they do taste a little different. They are richer than white eggs. The nutritional value of them is about the same as white eggs. Some chickens lay brown eggs, some lay white, and oddly enough there is a breed that lays pastel colored eggs. You can go to murrymcmurry.com and browse through their chicks and it tells you what eggs they lay and you can see the 'easter egg' chicks as well that lay the different color pastel eggs.
Why don't you just try one of each?
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They don't taste any different. It's the hen's diet that produces a different coloured shell.
There is no difference, they taste the same, and yes brown eggs come from certain species of chickens.