Comments on: Nutritional Value of Egg Yolks http://nutritionholistic.com/2008/11/nutritional-value-of-egg-yolks/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: WordVixen http://nutritionholistic.com/2008/11/nutritional-value-of-egg-yolks/comment-page-1/#comment-165 WordVixen Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:45:39 +0000 http://nutritionholistic.com/?p=16#comment-165 Sure thing! I actually would not have known this at the time that I wrote the article, but since then I've actually met a dairy farmer who also raises chickens for their eggs. According to him, it is entirely (or at least mostly) down to the chickens' diet. Chickens that are fed mostly corn and other grains will have lighter color yolks, chickens that have been allowed to graze will have darker yolks. He sometimes provides straight-from-the-farm-eggs for us and he was in raptures about 2 weeks ago that the chickens could be let out into the yard to feed themselves and get nice dark yolks. He said that sometimes they turn almost orange, which I believe as the earlier eggs were already a nice dark yellow. I don't know if this matters to you or not, but generally speaking, the darker the yolk the more nutritious it is. Free-range, cage free eggs are generally the most nutritious, and I personally think that they're the tastiest. So, after all that, yes, dark yolks are perfectly safe to eat. Now, if they're unpasteurized then you may want to beware if you find spots of blood in them. That generally means that they've been fertilized. Many people prefer that for health reasons, but it's very disconcerting if you've been used to pasteurized unfertilized eggs. Sure thing! I actually would not have known this at the time that I wrote the article, but since then I’ve actually met a dairy farmer who also raises chickens for their eggs. According to him, it is entirely (or at least mostly) down to the chickens’ diet. Chickens that are fed mostly corn and other grains will have lighter color yolks, chickens that have been allowed to graze will have darker yolks. He sometimes provides straight-from-the-farm-eggs for us and he was in raptures about 2 weeks ago that the chickens could be let out into the yard to feed themselves and get nice dark yolks. He said that sometimes they turn almost orange, which I believe as the earlier eggs were already a nice dark yellow.

I don’t know if this matters to you or not, but generally speaking, the darker the yolk the more nutritious it is. Free-range, cage free eggs are generally the most nutritious, and I personally think that they’re the tastiest.

So, after all that, yes, dark yolks are perfectly safe to eat. Now, if they’re unpasteurized then you may want to beware if you find spots of blood in them. That generally means that they’ve been fertilized. Many people prefer that for health reasons, but it’s very disconcerting if you’ve been used to pasteurized unfertilized eggs.

]]> By: Goldie http://nutritionholistic.com/2008/11/nutritional-value-of-egg-yolks/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Goldie Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:44:09 +0000 http://nutritionholistic.com/?p=16#comment-162 Q. Egg yolk - Why are some egg yolks a dark yellow color? Is it due to their food intake, they way they were raised, etc. Just don't know if it is safe to eat an egg with yolks that are a dark yellow in color versus a lighter yellow color. Please clarify this for me. Thank you. Q. Egg yolk – Why are some egg yolks a dark yellow color? Is it due to their food intake, they way they were raised, etc. Just don’t know if it is safe to eat an egg with yolks that are a dark yellow in color versus a lighter yellow color. Please clarify this for me. Thank you.

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