Difference between white and brown eggs? If any?

[anaconda]

I did a google search but apparently there is no nutritional difference. I always bought brown due to the "brown is healthier" mindset that has been instilled in me lol. Recently though I started buying white eggs and damn, they taste better to me. To me it seems like the yolks are sweeter but I dunno. Plus brown eggs are more expensive.


Is there any difference other than the type of hen that laid them? I'm getting white from now on.

 

[BLACKHAWK3634]

As far as I know they vary by color depending on the breed of hen. Other than the color difference I don't believe there are any major variances.

 

[Ziltoid]

From what I have read in the past...there is no difference.

 

[BLACKHAWK3634]

I did a search through an engine for academic resources and found this.

Re: Do Brown chicken eggs have more cholesterol than white eggs?

 

[anaconda]

I did a search through an engine for academic resources and found this.

Re: Do Brown chicken eggs have more cholesterol than white eggs?

Cool thanks. Yeah, apparently no difference:

As to the cholesterol content of the egg, I guess the best way to
state the answer is that a chicken egg is a chicken egg is a chicken egg.
The cholesterol is found in the yolk; cholesterol is a fat-like compound
that they human body can make easily, so there is no official
recommendation for a minimum intake in your diet. The average egg yolk
contains about 220 mg; there is never any differentiation in nutrient
tables as to white vs. brown eggs...or any other color shell, for that
matter. The difference that you might have noticed in the color of the egg
yolk is due to other compounds, not to cholesterol; and, the color is
partially due to the diet that the chicken has been eating. Vitamin A-like
compounds (carotenes) may impart more yellow to the yolk. These compounds
are found throughout the plant kingdom...and chickens, especially
free-range/farm chickens would have more access to these plants (like
dandelions?). Egg producers sometimes add these compounds to the
food formulated and fed to 'factory chickens' to make the yolks more
yellow, too.

So is it just in my head that the white eggs taste better or are more flavorful?

I get the same brand (Nature's promise omega 3) but the whites have yellower and sweeter yolks. Weird.

 

[bluethree]

Cool thanks. Yeah, apparently no difference:



So is it just in my head that the white eggs taste better or are more flavorful?

I get the same brand (Nature's promise omega 3) but the whites have yellower and sweeter yolks. Weird.

I think you may be an egg racist

 

[Diyako]

i buy white eggs but really like the taste of those brown organic eggs with the omega 3 fat in em. taste alot better to me,

 

[ronin0352]

i buy white eggs but really like the taste of those brown organic eggs with the omega 3 fat in em. taste alot better to me,

I've always thought of the brown eggs as healthier, but that's probably from being brought up in a hick town. The stores had regular white eggs, and we had chickens so they were fresh and "cage-free" and all that. As a kid I only cared that they tasted a lot better.