In honor of IMBB #16, I want to talk about eggs. Specifically, I want to talk about egg myths. Recently, I was picking up my eggs from the "egg lady" at the local farmers' market when a woman walked up and exclaimed, "I want to buy some of your low-cholesterol eggs!"
Now, what's she's talking about are the blue eggs from Araucana or Ameraucana chickens. Egg shell color is determined by the chicken's genetics, and the Araucana chicken has a dominant gene that creates blue egg shells. There's this myth that Araucana eggs are lower in cholesterol. They're not. In fact, Araucana eggs are consistently lower in protein and higher in cholesterol than the white eggs from White Leghorn chickens, which is the most common egg sold in the U.S. (Here's another study.) The differences are not really enough to matter from a nutritional viewpoint.
An egg is an egg. Got it? Good.
But blue ones sure do look cool.
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