Why do brown eggs taste better than white eggs?

[spidey07]

Do you honestly think the shells turn brown because the egg was fertilized?

City folk.

That's what the damn discovery channel told me!

 

[waggy]

they should be the same. only difference i ever notice is when we get eggs from a friend who has chickens and ones i get from the market. eggs laid that day are really good.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Color doesn't make a difference to me. But where they come from can.

 

[Kyteland]

That's what the damn discovery channel told me!

Different breeds lay different colored eggs. As a general rule, white chickens lay white eggs and brown/red chickens lay brown eggs. Industrially produced eggs will almost never be fertilized no matter the color. Eggs from a local farm may be fertilized.

People thinking that brown eggs are organic is mostly marketing. The mega farms mass producing eggs (in the US) happened to settle on the breed that lays white eggs. Organic farms tended towards brown eggs just to differentiate themselves.

But there's no difference between the two.

 

[Blackjack200]

Brown eggs taste better than white eggs because they are thicker and meatier. However, this also makes it harder to get your mouth around them.

Brown eggs also can't hold down a job.

 

[techs]

Wow. Many people are so ignorant. No one seems to have the correct answer. Which is, that brown eggs tast better because the chickens are fed a diet that's exclusively made of bacon.

 

[zinfamous]

The difference is obvious to me; but I prefer white eggs. My GF grew up near farms, so she prefers brown.

 

[zinfamous]

Different breeds lay different colored eggs. As a general rule, white chickens lay white eggs and brown/red chickens lay brown eggs. Industrially produced eggs will almost never be fertilized no matter the color. Eggs from a local farm may be fertilized.

People thinking that brown eggs are organic is mostly marketing. The mega farms mass producing eggs (in the US) happened to settle on the breed that lays white eggs. Organic farms tended towards brown eggs just to differentiate themselves.

But there's no difference between the two.

interesting....I suppose the different tastes I've experienced had to do with freshness of egg or diet of hen?

 

[frostedflakes]

Brown eggs contain higher levels of placebin, that's also why they have greater health benefits. In some studies they are just as effective as aspirin and ibuprofen for curing headaches.

Placebin. That's great, I'll have to use that in the future.

 

[KeithTalent]

Green eggs taste the best of all!

KT

 

[Numenorean]

They don't. Everyone knows this.

 

[Zenmervolt]

interesting....I suppose the different tastes I've experienced had to do with freshness of egg or diet of hen?

Yes and yes. Freshness and the hen's diet (and general health overall) are the biggest pieces.

 

[Kyteland]

interesting....I suppose the different tastes I've experienced had to do with freshness of egg or diet of hen?

Yes, just like the flavor of milk varies wildly depending on what the cow eats.

 

[KMFJD]

Do brown mushrooms taste better than white mushrooms?

 

[KeithTalent]

Do brown mushrooms taste better than white mushrooms?

Criminis? Portabellos? What kind of brown mushrooms? Doesn't matter I guess because the answer is yes either way.

KT

 

[sandorski]

Veggie fed Eggs are the best, for Store bought.