How to spot genuine organic eggs?
By Simone
@Janet357 (75656)
January 24, 2022 9:53pm CST
Last week, I bought a tray of organic eggs here. They were relatively small.
But what surprised me was their yolks, very pale. I always thought that brown/organic eggs had dark orange color but this one had paler yolks than the commercial one's.
Have you encountered this?
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11 responses
@Deepizzaguy (94514)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Jan 22
I have not encountered buying organic eggs yet.
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@Deepizzaguy (94514)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
26 Jan 22
@Janet357 Thank you for the information about the organic eggs.
@cherigucchi (14879)
• Philippines
25 Jan 22
I am not really good at spotting it but hubby can always help.
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@Fleura (29129)
• United Kingdom
25 Jan 22
There are several different questions here.
You mention brown eggs - do you mean the egg shells are brown? The colour of the shells has absolutely no relation to the colour of the contents or to whether the eggs are organic or not and the egg inside is exactly the same as the inside of a white egg or a blue egg!
Hens tend to produce richer coloured yolks when they have access to plenty of fresh food as @JudyEv says. But organic is not necessarily the same thing.
Commercial laying hens can be kept indoors, in individual cages ('Batteries', which are being phased out here) or in barns.
Or they can be kept outdoors with space to forage on grass and scratch around for themselves ('free range').
In either system they will be given commercial pelleted food which is either 'organic' or not. 'Organic' means it has been produced without using any artificial pesticides or fertilizers.
So the organic eggs could still have been produced by chickens kept indoors in batteries with no fresh food.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jan 22
@Fleura One of our big poultry farms here is free-range but they have old caravans and buses all over the paddocks. I guess these are for the chooks to roost in at night but they must be decked out with nests as well. I should really call in and ask one day.
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@RebeccasFarm (86757)
• United States
25 Jan 22
I do not know but I do buy the best eggs there are from the store...and you can really tell the difference.
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@peachpurple (13884)
• Malaysia
26 Jan 22
I had never bought organic eggs but i am working in a warehse. Do take note that all fresh eggs that supermarket received will be put into the baack store without air ventilation for a week before display on the shelf.
