{"id":489620,"date":"2010-03-30T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/the_conscious_consumer\/128\/what-s-the-difference-between-brown-eggs-and-white.html"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:50:21","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-between-brown-eggs-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489620","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the difference between brown eggs and white?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo: Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The only difference between a brown and white egg is the
\ncolor of the shell. Despite what you may have heard, one isn’t healthier, more “natural,” or more eco-friendly
\nthan the other. And there aren’t any
\ndifferences in nutritional
\nquality<\/a>, flavor, or cooking characteristics. <\/p>\n

The color of the shell is merely a reflection of the breed
\nof the hen. In general, but not always, hens with white feathers and earlobes lay
\nwhite eggs and those with dark feathers and red earlobes lay brown eggs. <\/p>\n

It may be surprising to learn that not all eggs are brown or
\nwhite. For example, some rare chicken breeds, such as the Araucana and
\nAmeraucana<\/a>, lay blue and blue-green eggs. <\/p>\n

There’s one difference between brown and white eggs that you may notice at the grocery store. Chicken breeds that produce brown eggs, such as the Rhode Island Red, are larger
\nand cost more to feed than hens that produce white eggs. So brown eggs may be a
\nlittle more expensive than white, according to the Egg Nutrition Center<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

You can get a better idea
\nof how
\nnutritious and fresh<\/a> an egg is after you crack it open. You’ll see more white ropey strands<\/a> (called
\nchalazae) in fresher eggs, which will also have well-formed round yolks surrounded by thick
\nwhites. The color of the yolk
\ndepends<\/a> on the hen’s diet, according to the Egg Nutrition Center. If feed
\ncontains wheat or barley, yolks will be lighter colored. Yellow corn or alfalfa
\nproduces medium yellow yolks.<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Getty Images) The only difference between a brown and white egg is the color of the shell. Despite what you may have heard, one isn’t healthier, more “natural,” or more eco-friendly than the other. And there aren’t any differences in nutritional quality, flavor, or cooking characteristics. The color of the shell is merely a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}