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What is the difference between White Eggs and Brown Eggs?

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jstevens11 says

...that a brown egg is laid by a reddish-brown hen with reddish-brown ear lobes, and a white egg is laid by a hen with white feathers and white ear lobes.

The first and obvious difference is their color, the second is the type of chicken it comes out of, personally i haven't tasted any difference between the two.

Nutritionally there is no difference, various breeds lay different colors. White eggs are popular with grocery stores visually (clean and fresh looking) and one of the best laying breeds happens to lay white eggs. Restaurants often prefer brown eggs as it is easier to see bits of shell when they fall in the food being prepared. A tiny white bit of shell in a pound of flour is hard to find until somebody crunches it. Yolk color is adjusted by feed contents.

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dabeaner says

I think the difference is that white eggs have white shells, and brown eggs have brown shells. ;>) Inside, no difference

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