Most people don’t see the difference between these two egg yolks. If you had to choose the most healthy-looking one, which one would you pick?
The color of egg yolks tell us a lot about the chicken, which laid the egg, but it’s not an indicator of whether or not it’s actually healthy. Free-range hens, who consume a lot of vegetation with carotenoids, lay eggs whose yolks are more expressive.
In order for them to be valuable, not only is a proper diet important, but so is the age of the chickens. Juveniles (about 28-weeks-old) lay eggs with a relatively low amount of nutrients, so do old chickens (over 97-weeks-old). The best come, therefore, from those that are in the middle age.
The following picture shows three egg yolks. Try to choose the one that you think is the most healthy and best looking.
The answer is on the next page!
how do you get to the next page
Press 3 or next (below the Waitrose egg advert)
No idea! I tried too Tricia.
Aaahhh…. Found it!! scroll down just passed the picture with the 2 different egg yolk colours in the frying pan and you will see ‘NEXT’ click on it and it will go to the next page.
This article isn’t actually correct at all. The colour of the yoke depends entirely on what the hen is fed, not how it is raised. Hens fed flax seed produce Omega 3 eggs and are very bright orange in colour. There is virtually no difference in the nutritional value of the egg in how it is raised, it is all in what they are fed.
Dwight is right about the colour depending on the feed. Also, the more runny and spread-out the white is, the older the egg.