Just got a box of eggs from Tesco. They’re all white! Never seen white hens’ eggs here.

by oeco123

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  1. Uk and usa use different breeds of chickens for eggs. The uk ones are usually brown and usa usually white.

    White leghorn = white eggs

    The colour of the chickens feathers can also determine the colour of the egg itself.

  2. Probably from an Asian supplier as they use white hens. No difference other than that as far as I know.

  3. Interesting fact. The US also have to wash their eggs as (for some reason I do not know) there is more risk of salmonella. This takes some protective coating off the eggs, hence why they store them in the fridge. Also why your fridge may have had the slot for eggs storage as it’s sold in the American market!

  4. Changed brands when these appeared in Sainsbury’s, thankfully they’ve gone back to brown.

    The ones they had had no flavour.

  5. Damn, why did 18 eggs turn up when I ordered ping pong balls

  6. I used to keep hens and one of them laid white eggs with blue speckles.

  7. Have a carton of these in the fridge, they taste like eggs… if you didn’t want them you shouldn’t have went for the cheapest option…

  8. We got white eggs in Tesco too! I was wtf’ing too 🤔 I actually thought the husband had bought duck eggs

  9. making a comeback thanks to covid is the explanation ive heard. increased demand due to people baking at home, rerouted eggs intended for the food industry who supposedly prefer white eggs.

    i can not vouch for the accuracy of this tho

  10. Different chicken breeds lay different colour eggs. We had a variety of breeds with a variety of eggs. Even had one that laid light blue eggs. Nothing wrong with white shells.

  11. Ireland too?
    I’ve seen lots of white shell eggs on the shelves here in England lately, and wondering what’s going on!

  12. The found that white bird flocks fight less than the brown ones and over their lifetime they’re more productive

  13. Fyi, the colour of the shell does not indicate that an egg is of better quality. There was a myth going round that brown shelled eggs are healthier than white and that’s just not true.

    How the hen is raised (cage, barn will always be worse than free range), what it’s fed on the other hand, does determine the nutritional values of the egg.

  14. My friend gives me a few fresh eggs from her chickens. They are brown like the organic eggs I get from the refrigerated store bought but they are small, like 2 to 1 …..however, once I figured out how to crack them without getting shell in the mix, the flavor is double and unmistakable

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