17 May 2009
Color My Yolks
Was in US last week and did a double-take cutting into a hard-boiled egg in a salad to find a canary-yellow yolk. Have gotten so used to dark orange that it seemed bizarre until I remembered that tweety-colored yolks are typical for factory extruded eggs. What do they feed them to get them that color?
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HFCS, industrial grade growth hormone, lots of antibiotics. Pollan had a whole chapter on it. Way "too much" of things that are not good, on industrial farms.
I had the opposite experience when first digging into organic eggs here -- I remember that colo[u]r!
Bonus: My spamcatcher word in Blogger starts with the letters "ovi-"!
But which things specifically impact the color? Darker yolks come from, what, access to green plants? Bugs? Something other than sugar and antibiotics?
A homogeneous diet will result in more monochromatic, less nutritious, but less cost effective to produce yolks, embryos, calves, milk, etc etc. Feed it a monoculture in a 1 foot by 1 foot cage, devoid of fiber, exercise, bits of barnyard gravel, bugs, a varied diet, etc, and industrial yolks will be pumped out 10 or 20% cheaper but with 1/2 to 1/10th the nutritional value. Using a holistic approach yields more nutritious outputs.
I just finished off a 9 mango flat over the last week, that I got from Costco. California mangoes, 9 for $4.97, picked in April (29th), damn tasty, quite fibrous, yummy, and good-for-you too. Compared to canned or jarred mangoes, even from the awesome Trader Joes, the freshly picked ones are hands down, much better for me and carry a smaller carbon footprint.
And to think I used to eat ice cream, 4 or 5 nights a week?
Now.. if I start producing eggs and dark yolks... that would be concerning. =)
(spamcatcher word "hogeyme" ... or is it.. hog. ey? me? after eating 7 of the 9 mangoes myself over 7 days... lol)
I think you mean *more* cost effective, not less. I need chickens.
you are correct sir. "more cost effective", per egg.
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