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While eggs might be an important staple in many refrigerators across the U.S., there’s an equal number of questions and concerns regarding their appearance. Any slight cloudiness,\u00a0weird white strands,\u00a0different colored shells,\u00a0red flecks, or deviation in the\u00a0yolk\u2019s sunny color, and many of us take pause. (Spoiler alert: They\u2019re all perfectly safe to eat and don\u2019t substantially change the taste.)\n<\/p>\n
One especially freaky occurrence: seeing a completely white\u2014or incredibly light yellow\u2014yolk. I’m talking ghostly levels of pale. It\u2019s enough to make you frantically Google search or call your mom mid-recipe to double-check if it\u2019s OK to consume. The good news is that you don\u2019t need to toss that\u00a0fried egg from the pan or scrap that whole bowl of\u00a0pancake batter\u00a0you were working on. Coming across a white yolk is perfectly natural, albeit a little rare in the United States.\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Getty Images\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n The color of your egg yolk depends on the\u00a0feed the chickens eat. In the United States, chickens typically eat a diet of yellow corn, and the pigments from the plant make their way into the egg yolks. Those pigments, called\u00a0xanthophylls, are also what give chicken skin and fat its yellowish tint. If the chicken happened to eat more white corn than yellow, the yolk will be paler as well.\n<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve traveled overseas, you\u2019ve probably noticed that the color of yolks varies widely across the globe. Again, this difference comes down to what the chickens are eating. In many African countries, for example, chickens typically have a diet of\u00a0mostly sorghum\u2014a grain with much less yellow pigmentation than yellow corn\u2014resulting in lighter or completely white yolks. If you\u2019ve traveled to South American countries and have noticed pink, blood orange, or almost reddish yolks, it\u2019s because chicken feed there is often fortified with red annatto seeds.\n<\/p>\n In the U.S., we\u2019ve come to\u00a0falsely associate darker yolks\u00a0with happier hens or better nutrition, but farmers can easily manipulate chicken feed to include carrots, alfalfa powder, or marigold to impact the color of their chickens\u2019 eggs.\n<\/p>\n So, when you come across an egg yolk that’s pale, don\u2019t freak out. The occasional, unexpected white yolk in your carton or eggs is just as edible and delicious as a yellow one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Pale #Egg #Yolks #Safe #Eat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While eggs might be an important staple in many refrigerators across the U.S., there’s an equal number of questions and concerns regarding their appearance. Any slight cloudiness,\u00a0weird white strands,\u00a0different colored shells,\u00a0red flecks, or deviation in the\u00a0yolk\u2019s sunny color, and many of us take pause. (Spoiler alert: They\u2019re all perfectly safe to eat and don\u2019t substantially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,152,420,193,396],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-eat","tag-egg","tag-pale","tag-safe","tag-yolks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n What Causes an Egg Yolk To Be White? <\/span> <\/h2>\n