Eggs-perts are weighing in on the color of your egg yolk. As Americans down an average of nearly 300 eggs a year, you’ve likely cracked open an egg to see a yolk slightly different than what you’re ...

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 ...

It can be jarring to crack an egg and see a bright orange yolk instead of the expected pale yellow, or vice versa. Americans eat on average nearly 300 eggs a year, making it likely you’ll stare down ...

Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the chicken that laid it was free to roam in a pasture somewhere foraging for bugs ...

Buying a carton of eggs from the grocery store usually doesn't pack many surprises — other than the occasional price surge. However, if you went home and cracked open an egg to find its contents are ...

Talk to a backyard chicken farmer long enough, and you’ll eventually hear about the color of their egg yolks, and how those of the $2-a-dozen commodity eggs literally pale in comparison. You’d think ...

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The simplest answer is that you are what you eat. Hens at industrial farms are, of course, given the necessary nutrition to lay the maximum number of eggs, but their diet is not nearly as varied as ...