MinuteFood | The truth about egg yolk color @MinuteFood | Uploaded 2 weeks ago | Updated 15 hours ago
An egg yolk’s color comes predominantly from carotenoids, a group of pigments produced by lots of living things...egg-cept animals, which get carotenoids from stuff they eat. The more carotenoid-rich foods a hen gobbles up, the darker-yolked eggs she’ll lay. But you can’t taste carotenoids, so eggs with carotenoid-packed yolks don’t actually taste different from eggs with yolks low in carotenoids.
Yet, based on the color, our brains egg-spect them to taste different.
And here’s another important thing: darker-yolked eggs don’t necessarily come from better-fed or more-local chickens. Because simply by supplementing basic chicken feed with egg-stra carotenoids – like red peppers, chili flakes, marigold petals, orange peels, or synthetic pigments – anyone, even a big commercial producer, can get their hens to lay eggs with almost any shade yolk.
An egg yolk’s color comes predominantly from carotenoids, a group of pigments produced by lots of living things...egg-cept animals, which get carotenoids from stuff they eat. The more carotenoid-rich foods a hen gobbles up, the darker-yolked eggs she’ll lay. But you can’t taste carotenoids, so eggs with carotenoid-packed yolks don’t actually taste different from eggs with yolks low in carotenoids.
Yet, based on the color, our brains egg-spect them to taste different.
And here’s another important thing: darker-yolked eggs don’t necessarily come from better-fed or more-local chickens. Because simply by supplementing basic chicken feed with egg-stra carotenoids – like red peppers, chili flakes, marigold petals, orange peels, or synthetic pigments – anyone, even a big commercial producer, can get their hens to lay eggs with almost any shade yolk.
