What's the difference between white and brown eggs?

Question

I known brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs. Are brown eggs also better for you and why?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Chicken eggs with white shells make up the bulk of the eggs sold in food stores, but sometimes eggs with brown shells are available, especially in farmers markets. The color of the shell is determined by the breed of the hen. The only difference between white and brown eggs is the color - there is no difference in flavor or nutritional value.

Answer 3

certainly, while you're questioning of organic white eggs, I certainly have some in my refrigerator on the 2d that have been laid by skill of ducks. They flavor a splash better than hens' eggs and are very nourishing. In spring i'm getting GOOSE eggs that are additionally white . they're extensive and scrumptious. The birds are loose variety and the eggs are absolute to be in good shape than those of cooped up hens. in any different case hens eggs have precisely a similar diploma of nourishment no remember if or not they're brown or white. I comprehend that interior the U. S. they favour white eggs whether that's in actuality a remember of shade determination.

Answer 4

you asked for the "difference" and you stated it...it is the colour. and you are also right -- brown color cost more.
PS. here is a suggestion to turn the white eggs into brown eggs -- when you do boil the white eggs -- put some "coffee beans" into the pot -- you will get a brown color egg. hope it helps.
ps. last but not least i agree with most of the replies -- brown or white eggs taste the same and have the same nutritional value. the proof is in the pu
dding -- try it yourself.

Answer 5

The only difference I ever found is the white shell eggs when cracked open go all over the pan where the brown shell eggs when cracked stay altogether in one place.check it out if it doesn't sound true. and eggs no matter what color they are have the same yellow and white into them.

Answer 6

I don't know if it's the breed of hen or the feed, but either way, the only difference is the color. Many restaurants will alternate and buy white, then brown, then white....so that they know which batch is newer and fresher.

Answer 7

No difference other than the difference in the breed Nutritional value is same. usually the brown eggs are from a bigger breed chicken so mey a little expensive.

Answer 8

There is no difference between white and brown eggs. They just come from different color hens.

Answer 9

we did this in science. Appartently the color is the breed of the chicken and also brown eggs are healthier bu tmost of the time they are also much more expensive.

Hope this helps.

Answer 10

The breed (or cross breed) is the only thing that determines the egg color. No difference in nutritional value.