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Depends on the chickens diet, the darker one must have ate a better diet
I used to get free range eggs from a farmer , the chickens ate mostly greens and bugs and the yolks were very dark orange
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Ok, apparently even the organic chicken feed in the US is enriched with carotenoids. Not the case in Europe... But I guess it makes business sense if people have the belief that the yolk color says something about quality or nutrient richness.I get free range organic eggs all the time and the yolk is always darker.
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Ok, apparently even the organic chicken feed in the US is enriched with carotenoids. Not the case in Europe... But I guess it makes business sense if people have the belief that the yolk color says something about quality or nutrient richness.
Exclusively? Don't think that would supply enough calories, unless it's a super small farm. But then again I don't know the US market and its regulations. Maybe you can selectively breed chicken for yolk color... Still, the yolk color doesn't tell you much about nutritional value. Exceptions are of course if the yolk is grey or otherwise rotten.Free range chickens here eat worms and bugs.
Actually, the natural color for egg yolks is yellowish. An orange, darker yolk indicates that the chickens were fed foods high in or enriched with carotenoids. That practice is very prevalent in industrial egg production. So if anything, an orange yolk indicates lower quality food.
All the organic eggs I ever ate had a light yellow yolk.
Exclusively? Don't think that would supply enough calories, unless it's a super small farm. But then again I don't know the US market and its regulations. Maybe you can selectively breed chicken for yolk color... Still, the yolk color doesn't tell you much about nutritional value. Exceptions are of course if the yolk is grey or otherwise rotten.
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/marketing-perfectly-colored-egg-yolk/The egg industry uses the yolk color fan to zero in on and maintain the yolk color it desires for its eggs. Xanthophyll extracts like lutein, β-cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin and canthaxanthin, derived from natural sources, are routinely used to micromanage yolk color. Such sources include marigold leaves, yellow maize, green feed like alfalfa, orange peels, algae, carrots, and annatto seeds. Synthetic pigments can be more powerful than naturally derived pigments, but consumer preferences for natural ingredients in feeds have kept the industry focused on natural sources, or liquid extracts thereof.
The manipulation of yolk color isn’t just something practiced by large-scale producers. At a farmers market in Santa Fe, vendor Matt Romero is frying purple Peruvian potato samples. When his friend stops by to say “hi,” Romero opens one of the egg cartons he has for sale, and cracks a pair into the pan. The yolks are a spectacular shade of dark, sunset-red.
“I save all the old red chile that doesn’t pass our cleaning stage,” Romero explains. “Any chile in the field that’s damaged , we feed it to our chickens. They eat the seeds first, then little by little they get to the flesh. The active dye [from chiles] is called zeaxanthin. We call them red chile eggs.”
Because of how easy it is to manipulate egg yolk color, a recent NPR story concluded that judging eggs by their yolks’ color “won’t tell you anything” about their nutrient content.
Actually, the natural color for egg yolks is yellowish. An orange, darker yolk indicates that the chickens were fed foods high in or enriched with carotenoids. That practice is very prevalent in industrial egg production. So if anything, an orange yolk indicates lower quality food.
All the organic eggs I ever ate had a light yellow yolk.
that's right they are suppose to roam around freely so yes they will be eating worms and bugs as part of their daily diet. that's a great diet for chickens.Free range chickens here eat worms and bugs.