Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs: What's the Difference?

Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs: What's the Difference?

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Brown eggs look healthier but are they?

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Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs – Which Are Healthier? – Dr.Berg

Stacey Ballis is the author of ten novels of culinary fiction including Off the Menu Out to Lunch Recipe for Disaster Wedding Girl and How to Change a Life as well as a digital cookbook Big Delicious Life. Her nonfiction essays have appeared in several anthologies and her culinary writings and recipes have appeared in Food & Wine Magazine EatingWell Magazine The Chicago Tribune Bake From Scratch Magazine Plate Magazine MyRecipes.com ExtraCrispy.com TheTakeout.com AllRecipes.com and one of her recipes was adapted for use in The New York Times. She was the recipe developer and culinary consultant for Frank Ardito's The Self-Care Cookbook. Stacey lives in Chicago with her husband and is currently working on a new work of complete fiction.

Growing up the egg choices were pretty simple. Medium Large Extra Large or Jumbo all white and all in a dozen styrofoam clamshells. Over the years the egg aisle has expanded. You now have a choice of eggs from free range to vegetarian six packs to 24 packs. Your egg experience is a little more customized.

But price aside the biggest decision these days seems to be between white and brown shelled eggs. Brown eggs seem to be the go-to for pretty pictures making white eggs seem a bit average visually. And the small premium for those brown eggs at least implies a little bit of superiority. But when it comes to brown eggs vs. white eggs are there really any differences we should be aware of?