fake brown eggs?

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

Odd thing happened today.

I'm on chemo and technically not allowed to eat raw eggs due to the bacteria

danger. I'm a renegade. But a clever one playing it safe so I soaked them in

warm water and white vinegar to clean and minimize bacterial risk. As I was

rubbing them each one by one with my dish sponge, the brown color started coming

off ! The more I rubbed, the more it came off. Looks like the eggs are

actually WHITE ! Not all the color came off but about 95% which makes them just

barely off white now!

Now, I'm no expert in eggs and hens but I remember a farmer telling me once that

white eggs come from white hens and brown eggs come from brown hens and that

there's absolutely no difference in their nutritional composition. So, if brown

eggs come from brown chickens, aren't the shells brown through and through and

not just on the surface?

Angel

[Guest guest]

Angel, you were just dissolving the outer layer of the egg shell. If

you look at a brown egg shell, it's not brown the whole way through.

It's white on the inside. Vinegar dissolves calcium, so you were

wiping away the shell itself, not anything that had been applied to it.

Val

On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:32 AM, <toreadpeoplehealthinfo@...>

<toreadpeoplehealthinfo@...> wrote:

> Hello all,

>

> Odd thing happened today.

>

> I'm on chemo and technically not allowed to eat raw eggs due to the

> bacteria danger. I'm a renegade. But a clever one playing it safe

> so I soaked them in warm water and white vinegar to clean and

> minimize bacterial risk. As I was rubbing them each one by one with

> my dish sponge, the brown color started coming off ! The more I

> rubbed, the more it came off. Looks like the eggs are actually

> WHITE ! Not all the color came off but about 95% which makes them

> just barely off white now!

>

> Now, I'm no expert in eggs and hens but I remember a farmer telling

> me once that white eggs come from white hens and brown eggs come

> from brown hens and that there's absolutely no difference in their

> nutritional composition. So, if brown eggs come from brown

> chickens, aren't the shells brown through and through and not just

> on the surface?

>

> Angel

>

>

[Guest guest]

Brown eggs do NOT come from brown chickens. White eggs do NOT come from white

chickens.

Generally, white eggs come from the Meditteranean breeds that are skinny, fast

and good foragers. The #1 breed that produces most of the white eggs in the

stores just happen to be white --- White Leghorns. But, we also have " blue "

chickens, (Blue Andalusians) that also produce white eggs.

Brown egg layers are chickens that are larger, more sedate, and just happen to

produce brown eggs. The feathers of the chickens that produce eggs are quite

variable --- as are those of the chickens that produce brown eggs.

Some chickens (Ameraucanas and Araucanas) produce sky blue eggs. Ameraucanas

and Araucanas that are cross-bred with brown egg layers produce blue, green,

yellow, tan and even pink eggs.

The liver of a chicken affects the color of the egg. No nutritional variation

in eggs relates to that of the color. It's simply a physical characteristic

NOT a nutritional one.

" fake " brown eggs?

Hello all,

Odd thing happened today.

I'm on chemo and technically not allowed to eat raw eggs due to the bacteria

danger. I'm a renegade. But a clever one playing it safe so I soaked them in

warm water and white vinegar to clean and minimize bacterial risk. As I was

rubbing them each one by one with my dish sponge, the brown color started coming

off ! The more I rubbed, the more it came off. Looks like the eggs are actually

WHITE ! Not all the color came off but about 95% which makes them just barely

off white now!

Now, I'm no expert in eggs and hens but I remember a farmer telling me once

that white eggs come from white hens and brown eggs come from brown hens and

that there's absolutely no difference in their nutritional composition. So, if

brown eggs come from brown chickens, aren't the shells brown through and through

and not just on the surface?

Angel