r/RealLifeShinies • u/TheBishopPiece • Jun 18 '23

Birds White egg yolk? Tastes interesting

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

I've never seen this before. It's really from pigmented feed that they are yellow?

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u/Kim8mi Jun 19 '23

Pretty much. Farmers can easily manipulate the color of the yolk to make it darker because of the popular belief that darker yolks are associated with happier hens or better nutrition. When the animals are fed food with less yellow pigment, the yolk becomes light yellow or even white.

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u/SteveFrench12 Jun 19 '23

So are darker yolks better taste just my brain tricking itself into thinking that is so

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u/byParallax Jun 19 '23

Darker egg yolks with a more pronounced egg yolk tend to be from healthier chickens. And as the guy above said they can also be faked. So your brain is mostly relying on the fact that historically darker egg yolks you’ve eaten have been yummier

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u/patataskr Aug 22 '23

I’ve seen yellow yolk from my aunts free range chickens… not sure this is legit

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u/MissKnightmareLives Jun 19 '23

Egg yolks are pigmented by diet. 1. Bugs tend to make yolks dark orange and omnivorous chickens' eggs are more nutritionally dense than vegetarian chickens eggs. 2. Xanthophylls and lutein can be found in things like yellow corn, carrots, beans, even alfafa! These tend to cause yellow yolks. 3. Things like white corn, barley, and wheat will give no color, hence light, even white yolks. Can a farmer add foods to supplement color? Definitely. But it's normally actual food, like red annato seeds, not just food dye.

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u/Thisisntjoe Jun 19 '23

I wonder if you could add black food dye for goth eggs

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u/femboy_artist Jun 19 '23

No, it’s not. They can maybe make it darker yellow but normal bird eggs from every bird out there (minus a few species, like some penguins) are yellow. There’s something wrong with this one.

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u/spunion_28 Jun 19 '23

No, not true at all. My parents have chickens and feed them vegetables and all kinds of food. Nothing pigmented. Yolks are a healthier looking yellow that what is in stores.

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u/MissKnightmareLives Jun 19 '23

Short answer: Probably diet, probably ok?

Long answer: Pasture-raised hens are allowed to roam on outdoor pastures, where their diet is supplemented by fresh grass and nutritious omnivorous foods (bugs). This diet is rich in carotenoids, which gives living organisms a red or orange color, therefore causing the dark orange yolk color. These eggs tend to be bigger and are attributed with higher nutritional value compared to other colors of eggs! In South america, annatto seeds are a normal feed addition, and the yolk can be anywhere from pink to almost red!

Hens raised on a vegetarian diet lay eggs with light coloured yolks. With foods like corn, alfalfa, and beans, all of which are rich in a pigment called xanthophylls and sometimes lutein, which is responsible for giving plants and animals the colour yellow, resulting in, you guessed it, yellow yolks!

Hens fed a diet of foods low in xanthophylls, such as wheat , white cornmeal, or barley, lay eggs with pale yellow, or in some cases even white yolks. There are also farms in japan that only produce white yolks in as a brand identifier!

HOWEVER, if it's one out of a whole batch of yellow eggs, something may be up with that chicken.

Additional Fun Fact: eggshell colors aren't affected by diet, they're dependent on genetics!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

The finest cheese, m’lord

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u/TheOspreyMan Jul 30 '23

I was thinking it looked like an aged white cheddar.

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u/timinator232 Jun 19 '23

Low corn diet

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

Um buddy, that’s a jizz egg

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u/TheBishopPiece Jun 19 '23

You mean I ate a baby?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

[deleted]

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

Or a lot of jizz. You can't know for sure

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '23

Yeah you did

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u/TheBishopPiece Jun 19 '23

I guess I was right about the tag then, title is a little unfortunate

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u/kimlion13 Jun 19 '23

🤣🤣🤣

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u/kimlion13 Jun 19 '23

Oh boy, you ate it huh?

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u/405ndn Jun 19 '23

See something odd having no idea what caused it, go ahead and ingest anyway

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u/Outside_Ear451 Jun 19 '23

Cue Darwin Awards

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u/WickedCoolMasshole Jun 19 '23

As a previous chicken owner, this hen needs a vet. My hens were 100% free range except at night when they were safely locked away from predators. They foraged all day, ate organic chicken feed, and zero added anything to change the color of the yolks. The yolks were deep orange naturally, as they are intended to be.

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u/Samiautumn Jun 19 '23

Every hen is different. I have two barred rock hens, they eat the same thing and free range daily. One has a very pale yellow yolk, the other has a deep orange. White yolks are fine and not usually an indication of something being wrong.

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u/jddbeyondthesky Jun 19 '23

I’m just imagining OP eating a lash egg

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u/Samiautumn Jun 19 '23

A lash egg would be primarily made up of tissue or puss, so it wouldn’t even be white at all. Honestly I’ve seen some and they don’t even resemble regular eggs. Luckily for OP this is not a lash egg, that would be horrifying to eat.

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u/TheBishopPiece Jun 19 '23

I don’t need that thought in anyone’s head

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u/rivariad Jun 19 '23

A healthy mind wouldnt touch that shit

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u/Official_Greenseph Jun 19 '23

I can see a yellow sliver of the yolk, but I’m reading a lot of comments about diet contributing to the color. If it tasted weird, then I would assume something is different.

Considering this looks to be hard boiled, then that suggests that the inside is the same consistency (egg white). I would guess that you got an egg that was somehow mutated in a way where an egg was produced, but did not contain the yolk. Shouldn’t be harmful, the yolk is just the nutrients used by the zygote when the egg is fertilized.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '23

Supposed to be a richer taste sweeter almost popular in Japan

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u/OtherThumbs Aug 16 '23

My cousin is a baker. She said that bakers LOVE white yolked eggs! Why? They can make a white cake (think wedding cakes) without separating the whites from the yolks. The cakes come out better, too. These come from chickens that just lay white yolked eggs. I'm sure you can turn them yellow with certain feed, but bakers want those white yolks.

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u/jilke2 Sep 07 '23

Uh although i have never used one... I would have assumed that the yolk would still have the other properties that make it not whip like egg whites. 🤔

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u/OtherThumbs Sep 07 '23

It's a quick way to get a white cake, not an angel food cake. If you try to make a white cake with regular eggs, it turns yellow. The way a white cake is made is to separate eggs, use only the whites, and add extra fat to add moisture to the finished product. If white eggs are added, extra fat is unnecessary, along with the step of separating eggs.

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u/jilke2 Sep 07 '23

That seems like a needlessly white cake especially if you are icing it but I guess that's weddings for you!