Why You Should Eat White Eggs
Brown and white eggs are not the same after all, says FavorFlav’s Adeline. White eggs may look a little pale, but white eggs are just as healthy as brown eggs, considerably cheaper, and even better for the environment.
This is evident from the episode about white eggs of the TV programme Keuringsdienst van Waarde. The programme makers investigated why a brown egg costs as much as 7 or 8 cents more than a white egg.
Cheaper
What does it turn out? Because the first free-range eggs happened to be brown eggs, people associate those eggs with healthier, animal-friendly eggs. As a result, they are more popular, so supermarkets can charge more for them. White eggs, on the other hand, are still associated with battery cages. Nonsense, because battery-cage eggs are no longer sold, but it does make them less popular and therefore cheaper. At AH, a box of ten white free-range eggs costs €2.39, while a box of brown free-range eggs (the cheapest ones) costs €3.69!
Better for the environment
It gets even better: white eggs are actually better for the environment. The hens that lay white eggs need less feed, live longer, and lay more eggs per year: between 300 and 320, while the hens that lay brown eggs produce between 290 and 310 eggs per year.
Earlobes
What makes an egg white or brown in the first place? It has to do with the colour of the earlobes. A hen with white earlobes lays white eggs, while a hen with red earlobes lays brown eggs.
Source: Keuringsdienst van Waarde
