Egg color is engineered

[@adamkauffman9311]

I met a farmer while backpacking and we got some eggs to eat. Their deep orange yolk promoted me to say “oh yeah, these are the good eggs. This means the hens were pastured and eating bugs etc.” and he said “No dude. It simply means the chickens ate a higher ratio of yellow corn [higher in beta carotene] as opposed to white corn [lower in beta carotene]. That’s the only thing the yolk tells you.” So I learned a lot there.

[@blenderbanana]

"These are pretty. And I will enjoy plating them."

[@cassieoz1702]

Sure, applies to commercially produced eggs. My free range farm mutts DO eat greens and bugs and DONT eat corn. Cheap corn is an American phenomenon

[@elgatitokawai55]

bro literally NO ONE has a conversation like that 😭

[@ihatemotionblur_3255]

@@elgatitokawai55 u need to leave ur house once in a while lol people do make small talk

[@elgatitokawai55]

@@ihatemotionblur_3255 no it's not that. it's just that the dialogues in the conversation in the comment feels very unnatural

[@javasiege]

I can’t believe Kate got facial reconstruction surgery multiple times for this video. Great dedication!

[@kapoioBCS]

Eggxactly!

[@rosepinkskyblue]

I don’t get it

[@NinjaTheLego]

I thought it would have been funnier if she would have put a tag or herself close to the end when she did show up.

[@HGJHan1000]

@@rosepinkskyblue It's because at 1:24 she labels the woman as not her.

[@Qermaq]

It's all masks like Travolta and Cage in Face Off. Don't be fooled!

[@theCodyReeder]

what if I gave my chickens a diet with little to none of the carotenoids? can I make eggs with a clear white yolk? would the animal suffer ill effects from having them removed from the diet?

[@TheMinecraftMan757]

You missed the opportunity to show the egg pun counter on the radial dial of an egg timer.

[@theredbar-cross8515]

You're basically just trolling us now with the not-a-face-reveal face reveal lol Great video. Years ago I met a guy who supplies groceries to Japanese supermarkets, and he explained to me that the supermarkets have a 24 level egg yolk color grade system. And that in Japan, the chickens are usually fed a huge amount of paprika as that's the easiest and cheapest way to get their eggs to an almost bloody red.

[@fireaza]

I live in Japan and eat eggs frequently, but I've never seen "almost bloody red" yolks nor any grading at the supermarket.

[@theredbar-cross8515]

@@fireaza I'm referring to suppliers for supermarkets, you won't see them as a shopper.

[@amazinggrapes3045]

​@@theredbar-cross8515??? So the supermarket isn't selling the eggs to the consumers????

[@cobiandiego5896]

@@amazinggrapes3045 No i think they meant that in shops you won't see the grading

[@samueladler8233]

The chip crunching mentioned at 1:35 is actually quite interesting. When I was a food science student in one of my classes taught by Dr. Zata Vickers, she explained to us that she was one of the first researchers to study how the sound of what you eat affects your perception of its texture. So if a chips crunches differently, you perceive its texture differently.

[@user-ib2fs5gg2s]

and if its slightly squishyer then youd think it tastes bad , without changing the taste of the chip

[@BariScienceLab]

Eggcellent video! This really eggceeded my eggspectations. MinuteFood, your channel is never eggregious. It always gets to the point, which is eggsactly what I need. And finally, the topics you make videos on are speggtacular!

[@dhfhebkdpdndnbd]

"i dont think about anything silly" -you

[@brothermine2292]

All those puns are eggsausting.

[@refathbari5690]

@@brothermine2292 Please EGGScuse me

[@CoDSysmiq]

​@@brothermine2292one might say, eggcessive

[@rsnaveen3485]

Eggxactly the comment I was looking for 🐔🥚

[@Bloodshotistic]

Lovely egg puns. And today I learned my breakfast is gaslighting me better than my exes.

[@ditmethanghack]

how many exs have you got?

[@nyuh]

you mean your eggses?

[@ditmethanghack]

:>

[@Bloodshotistic]

@@nyuh I love you.

[@Bloodshotistic]

@Reptalica Not enough to beat the counter but plenty from the polyamorous relationships I've been in.

[@jayd777]

I absolutely adore the 2b & 9s reference at 0:33, nice!

[@KDiaz-hy1xx]

I've been studying the work of Dr. Fabiana Carvalho and Charles Spencer regarding how the color of cups affects the perception of coffee flavor, and I've learned that even the WEIGHT of the cup can set up flavor expectations. Sensory perception is fascinating.

[@noob19087]

For anyone thinking that feeding chickens chilies seems a bit unethical, keep in mind that capsaicin has no effect on avians. For them a habanero is just a smaller, floral scented bell pepper.

[@davidjaramillo2940]

Shut

[@noob19087]

@@davidjaramillo2940 Yes? Go on?

[@lamdelmundo8492]

Me noticing 2B and 9S: I see what you did there....

[@aokmaniac13]

Don't forget Miku

[@MiguelAngel_Romero]

I really enjoy minute food videos. Thanks! Btw Cate's stick figure interaction with the salmon and egg in a bowl was awesome lol

[@francisspecimen675]

My friends and I always debated about yolk color. I hypothesized that maybe darker colors in food fools our brain that it's more "concentrated" and thus appears to us as more flavorful and nutritious, making us prefer those foods.

[@equestanton1017]

It doesn't fool the brain, those things generaly do taste better because of the colour which is tastless itself. Think of a ripe red berry, its always sweeter tastier and more fragrant than one that is not red yet. The red colour is tasteless but the berry is not. The carotenids advertise this fact to birds us etc. The colour doesn't fool us, it's a natural mechanism to help us choose what to eat and is healthy itself. In fruit and veg this is almost 100% the case, even dark green veg packed with carotenoids. A pale yellow squash is not going to be sweet and tasty and fragrant but a deep orange one is worthy of pumkin pie. A chicken eating good things will lay tasty orange eggs, the natural carotenoids and things like carotine advertise that. Producer do and can fool us manipulating with chemical colourants, they should be banned because those eggs are less good for us, because they contain less carotenoids just "edible" dyes and yes you can taste the difference.

[@slyar]

Ah yes, cause supermarkets need to wait for their eggs to ripen Did you watch the video?@@equestanton1017

[@Ruby_The_Cowboy]

conceggtrated*

[@luanpotter]

Eggcellent video, Kate, as always. I think there is another big reason for the darker yolk preference, at least for me: it seems that overcooked eggs tend to lose some of that coloration, turning more to the yellow/pale side. As I really dislike overcooked yolks that have become hard, gritty and falling apart, that really induces me to unconsciously favour more orange-y, darker yolks as I know they are more likely to be slightly undercooked, delicious and creamy and runny - at least when looking at a cooked dish.

[@aschoenecke]

Always massively impressed with the visual quality of these videos

[@JosephsDesign]

Backyard hens are the best eggs 100%, and it doesn’t matter the colour. I have white, brown, even green shelled eggs with all different coloured yolks, and they are way better than grocery store eggs. Colour isn’t the issue, mine just come from better chickens. On top of that, when I have given people goose eggs in the past, a few people have said they enjoy the goose eggs more. Goose eggs have a much richer flavour than chicken eggs, a darker yolk, and whites that cook snow white. Wherever you get your eggs from, remember better eggs from better breeds of chickens have better flavour.

[@jeffwei]

Goose or duck eggs

[@JosephsDesign]

@@jeffwei Goose eggs are more nutritious than chicken eggs, but goose eggs are a flavour only some people like. Either way, it’s usually worth while buying better chicken eggs.

[@Phatnaru0002]

It's not so much the color itself, as how colorful it is. If the yolk is pale, there's something seriously wrong.

[@mitchellschopen3040]

Awesome video. I feed crewmates from many different walks of life for my job. The eggs we have are rather yellow. I bet that some of crewmates who aren't foodies and grew up getting the cheapest eggs would actually be a little grossed out if we started serving orange ones. It's important to remember how varied our perceptions can be.

[@THEunderscoreJOKE]

Great video. I would like to point out though that carotenoids do have a plethora of health benefits though. So for that alone, I think I'll keep choosing those yummy looking orange yolks.

[@Zaxares]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I wish MinuteFoods had answered my question about whether the extra carotenoids in eggs had any health or nutritional benefits for humans when eaten.

[@brothermine2292]

The carotenoid (natural or added) in salmon is astaxanthin, which is believed to be a healthy antioxidant.

[@aenetanthony]

@@ZaxaresYeah, especially since they brought up health benefits at the beginning but never answered the question

[@Kway32]

Was waiting for a mention of that. I guess we can look for a different video on carotenoids.

[@casualcrisp]

0:33 is that 2B and 9S?

[@heikachan8052]

I always liked more yellow ones because they were more SUNny and happy, and the dark ones feel to me like they are burned. Number 5 on your scale is perfect for me ☀

[@Yupppi]

How do you pick for the color of the egg? In my grocery store the shells are whole. In fact I've had both colors, light yellow and dark orange, from the same brand's same package bought on different days. But that's probably just Finland things where for at least some people the type of chicken coop is more important than the color of the yolk. But I understand that a popular reason for the less tasty tomatoes is also that it ripens evenly red (although here the reason might be slightly on the side of tolerating transport and shelf). Haha in fact, the consumers might be onto something with the fish. I think it's been shown that salmon bred and grown in captivity doesn't taste as good and often has diseases, so the pale color of the flesh indeed communicates that. So the problem isn't necessarily the color preference of the consumers, but the way they grow the animals, after all (if anyone doubted that the industrial farming of animals was in any way a good). In the end this video only made me more upset about how the consumers are mislead into thinking what they eat is good quality and healthy. Although I'm not sure if you're allowed to do this in Finland, the land of banning and restricting any funny business in food.

[@christianhumer3084]

You dont. You choose a product because of the eggspihens you have. When product A tastes better than B (at least, you think so), you are going to take A. You dont know why its better, but you know that its better (at least, you think so).

[@runnerfrog13]

The video explanation for salmon is the opposite: farm salmon is MORE pink because of added carotenoids to their diet, and wild salmon is the naturally less pink one. (Unless the coloring is added after the fish is harvested).

[@harmonicaveronica]

I usually am buying my eggs from local sources, so whenever I get a grocery store egg it's a really weird experience! Not only are the yolks much paler than I'm used to, but the shells are so much thinner. I dunno if it's the breed of chicken or if it's that they get only juuust enough calcium or what, but those eggs are noticably more delicate

[@MinuteEarth]

Feeling like stick figure Kate having an existential crisis at 4:13

[@Alexandre-yp1uy]

Did you mean Eggsistential crisis?

[@Niraloks]

@@Alexandre-yp1uyeggcelent comment

[@Wonderhoy-er]

@@Alexandre-yp1uy*the pun theme plays on drums*

[@missnaomi613]

As an egg yolk color preference outlier, I wanted to weigh in. I'm someone who checks raw eggs before cooking them, to make sure there are no blood spots. I don't know if this is something that is only done by those of us who keep kosher, or not. Anyway, it actually makes me a little uneasy when the yolks are too orangey. Cultural bias is real, I know. Anyway, I just wanted to share another point of view, because we're all here to learn. ❤

[@brothermine2292]

The red hue of salmon is astaxanthin, a very powerful antioxidant that's thought to be healthy.

[@locomotivefaox]

You really opened up an hencylopedia of egg puns for this one, didn’t you?

[@oreskec]

well done for the puns. I was trying to come up with one for this comment, but I just couldn't lay it down

[@bazoo513]

0:35 - Yeah, that's something one would expect from Kenji! 😀

[@starfar5218]

I loved the little Nier;Automata “Easter egg” at 0:33!

[@WindStreak_]

0:33 Oh that's 2B and 9S! Neat Easter Egg!!

[@NotJustJimmy]

MinuteFood composed the short to fit the long-ways aspect ratio without changing much of the content. Yet, it made it feel natural when transitioning to the larger normal KZbin video aspect ratio. Genius execution.

[@daviddavis4885]

It’s funny that y’all say that the darker yolked eggs are supposedly better. I’ve never seen eggs that dark and if someone gave me a dark-yolked egg I’d probably think something was wrong with it I guess its just a placebo effect, and if you’ve never been told about it the opposite kind seems strange

[@Phatnaru0002]

They actually are. Darker yolks are usually (not always, but usually) a sign that the egg is pasture raised. Pastured eggs are WAY healthier, generally have more flavor and sit better in the stomach, are less prone to diseases, and are just way more humane conditions for the chickens. One thing is for certain though. If your egg yolks are pale, something is wrong with them, and they are not good for you.

[@NiyaKouya]

30 egg puns in a 6 minute video? That's eggstreme! Anyway: in the past we got some eggs that were IIRC bio/organic certified, and they had pretty pale yolks. But they still tasted amazing, so the taste difference probably only works when you have a direct comparison.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Hey, arcadi, gracias por tus contribuciones! La verdad hace tiempo que me preguntaba porque se mencionaban tantas cosas relacionadas con España. I'm a big fan of the Channel!

[@andersvj]

The PPM (puns per minute) of this video is dangerously high.

[@outrage_swampert979]

This channel is everything I was expecting MattPatt's Food theorist channel to be. Thank you for the knowledge you're sharing

[@Artaxo]

Here's the last place I expected to find 2B and 9S

[@sourcererseven3858]

extraordinarily cute stick-figure animation in this one 😊 One point not mentioned: Why do we have tastebuds anyway? Same reason we take those other indicators (looks, sound, feel) into consideration: To make sure we eat something that is A) not poisonous/rotten and B) has the nutriotion our bodies need (hence why sugar tastes good, because it's an easily processable carbpohydrate). It doesn't matter that our tastebuds cannot detect carotenoids, our eyes can, so our brain gives us the same reward we get from the tsatebuds telling us we're eating something we need. (that is assuming that carotenoids are a valuable nutrient, I'm second guessing myself here, not my native language... But isn't that the vitamin that's important for eye-sight?)

[@shade0636]

I like the full commitment to the puns. Maybe it would have been better without the counter though.

[@SunxPaul]

i never thought about choosing an egg color i just have eggs and they are all some color sometimes gold somtimes yellow and i dont care they do egg things

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Question really is, are dark yolk eggs more nutritious given their higher amount of carotenoids? Do free-range hens produce eggs richer in micronutrients, which incidentally are of a richer color? That might be the reason why we instinctively prefer the most colorful eggs (and other foods).

[@yoshikamiyafujidesu]

Is that a 2B and 9S reference (from Nier Automata) at 0:36 (the two in the middle)?

[@aribantala]

I already know the answer to this that they are just given food with orange pigmentation, Always assume it's Carotene (and glad it's somewhat true) because it's the compound that I know to give out Orange and Yellow colors on almost every single natural foods and never had the time to really confirm it. Never really bought the "Organic" and "High Omega 12" eggs marketing gimmick of sellers that purposely sold orange egg yolk Thanks for the video!

[@AdamKiraly_3d]

Food/kitchen science always blows my mind! Your content really changed how I see and understand the world, thank you!

[@TheBusyJane]

I've known about them feeding chickens to make the yolks more orange for a while. I was under the impression that up to a point, the color of the yolk tells you something about the health of the chickens. Like if it's really pale, they're only fed cheap grain. If it's orangey they're supplemented with caratenoids, but darker yellow means they get a more varied, healthier diet. Does this hold up? Also the shells. If they're brittle vs thicker, thicker shells mean healthier chickens? I'd like the chickens that lay eggs for me to live under the most ethical conditions I can afford. And I'm thinking healthier chickens lay more nutritious eggs. Should I be throwing everything I thought was a sign of this out the window?

[@Makri9]

You know what would have made this awesome video even better? Some egg puns. Really, think about it. So many places to crack them in!

[@NairaMB]

I loved the video, it was super interesting, I never realized we had biases about such an apparently superficial thing. When we buy eggs, we don't know what color they'll be beforehand, and it's super curious to see that apparently it has an effect on the way we experience their flavor. Thank you very much for an eggxecelent video, I loved the pun count too XD

[@Sicara91]

There have also been a lot of studies on plating food, like what colors of food should be on the same plate and stuff. There is a lot of psychology that goes into eating stuff.

[@JackieOwl94]

I like bright yolks, only because I see them in the chickens we raise at work and know they are 100% free ranged and happy.

[@SagarRavrane]

Your videos are Eggsquisite, Kate! I wish the world had more teachers like you! I learn from the minutefood, minuteearth and minutephysics more than I learned combined during my life so far. 💖

[@PlanesAndGames732]

I have a feeling the actual topic of the video was how many egg puns could possibly be fitted in a 6-minute video

[@galashery7264]

I’ve never heard of this color difference. In my country all of the eggs have bright yoke.

[@TheVirtualArena24]

If I had a dollar everytime she made an egg pun I would have an eggcelent life.

[@kaltziferYT]

0:49 omg this reference is so cute

[@pip119]

Oh interesting, I would have chosen the lighter yolk. At least with the local chickens, if you get a bit of blood in the yolk or, worse, the egg has started to go bad, it can sometimes darken.

[@niccosalonga9009]

Hmmm. Now I'm trying to figure out where the wild chickens (in the Philippines, at least, not sure if it's the same elsewhere) get all the carotenoids from. It's generally darker and more orange red than the typical egg yolk.

[@runnerfrog13]

I'm so surprised to hear that about salmon! I thought a pale pale color meant the salmon was old and close to spoiling!

[@TikhonSuslov]

Shout out from the linguistic community for the wug at 1:05

[@jdsonical]

wügen are just cute and lovely, no?

[@wylanvallotton4462]

Not only is this video egg-cellent, but the puns are egg-xemplary and egg-cessive. I love it. Yoking good times

[@domz9964]

The number of eggcellent puns cannot be ignored. This has got to be one of my all time fav vids so far

[@JaePlay]

This needs to be applied to MANY different food quality consensus topics. We need more blind taste tests. Like most people who prefer wild caught vs farm raised fish of whatever kind... im 99% sure blind taste test will have mixed results anyway.

[@MapleRose9]

The unexpected Nier Automata reference at 0:34 XD Colour affects our expectation of taste; candy and cereal have been doing this to fool us into thinking we're tasting different flavours when they're all the same (eg Skittles and Fruit Loops)

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

There is even a time when you want paler egg yolks: making a traditional French omelet. The paler yolk the better!

[@gohell4]

Did you notice? The two eggs placed side used for the thumbnails and in videos are eggxactly the same, but mirrored and color adjusted. If you look closely, they have the same imperfections!

[@sciencetoymaker]

The egg pun counter is hilarious! Good on ya Kate; keep up the good work.

[@Meshamu]

I wanted something more, than just emphasizing the first syllables of words and making them sound like "egg". Some double entendres, or using other related words, something! Aside from my disappointment in the limited variety of egg puns, it was a cracking video.

[@illusion-xiii]

I'm curious, has there been any study/taste test that compared the taste of eggs that were from chickens fed actual carotenoid-rich foods (as opposed to marigold petals and dyes), to see if there was any correlation to the flavor. The test in the video seemed to only compare eggs of different colors with no verification of where the color comes from, and if the darker eggs were commercially produced and only got their color from pigments or nutrient-low carotenoid sources, then basically they were just comparing dyed eggs with non-dyed eggs. I'd be interested in whether eggs that are verified to get their color from a diet of natural carotenoid sources would get a different result in the blind taste tests.

[@allisongonzalez9196]

Gotta love the Automata reference!

[@RyuKyu316]

The amount of egg puns🤣

[@MrMrSwitzerland1]

How do Extensions like Tab for Cause work? The only thing that comes to mind is them selling your data and donating the resulting money??

[@matthewparker9276]

My immediate instict is to go for the lighter yolk, because my experience with free range home produce eggs is they have a lighter yolk than ones purchased from the supermarket. Counterintuitively, those lighter yolks give a much stronger colour to foods they're added to than the supermarket eggs. My conclusion is that there is not a single pigment that gives egg yolks colour. The different ratios of those pigments dictate the colour, but a paler yolk could have more overall pigment. Note, this is my own conclusion and isnt necessarily correct.

[@matteblack5805]

Maybe im stupid, but ive never heard of this nor have i noticed a taste in light/dark yolk eggs. However farm vs grocery store eggs i have noticed a change in taste. The farm ones taste like saving money, its why i have hens

[@Flk0217]

I'm supremely disappointed that you didn't end with "That's all, yolks."

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

I prefer yellower eggs, about 4-5. Because one time I got one with blood in and now darker yolks creep me out. Also, I would totally eat a blue steak. Then I would tell two retired Starfleet admirals they can’t commander my starship and assign them bunk beds in the lower decks.

[@КсенийКот]

I love the nier automata reference

[@prosamis]

THANK YOU People so often dismiss the effects of our brain's expectations and placebos as "not real" just because something like blindfolding yields different results BUT THEY'RE VERY REAL. We experience them consistently that way because that's how we work! That's real! Very real! It doesn't have to be an external object to be real!!!!

[@ryuichiro.sakuraba]

Oooh eggs. How egg-citing. Love love eggs. :D We've had some hens back in the day, egg yolk colour is dictated by diet. More yellow or orangey corn in the feed makes for deeper coloured yolks. They did taste egg-zactly the same as the ones who didn't have much of that colourful corn. Also, love the kinda 2B and 9S bobbleheads in the blindfolded pair lol

[@MTBOSS09]

I didn't even know about this egg yoke color and taste thing before now.

[@tremkl]

These egg puns were absolutely cracked.

[@gasparsigma]

Thinking of that many egg puns must have been eggscrutiatingly difficult

[@webrunner42]

glad you got YoRHa to taste test

[@DominikJaniec]

thank you for information about this trick, and I love your eggs puns

[@Sunlest]

Was that a Nier reference?

[@lkahfi]

I thought darker yolk because the egg are older (because of blood vessel or something) and brighter means fresher

[@Joy_inc]

There are certain designer eggs with specific proteins and vitamins have different color and taste

[@elToroBandido]

I'm a simple man, I see Nier Automata easter eggs, I press like.

[@juliav.mcclelland2415]

Even though it means nothing, why do my cousin's backyard chickens lay eggs with the darkest yokes I've ever seen? Is he feeding them carrots and bell peppers?

[@PanagiotisPolitis-bl9xj]

And I was wondering why eggs from my grandmother's hens, which had yellow yolks, tasted better than the supermarket's orange yolks

[@kinseywk]

Anyone else find the deep orange yolks are offputting? They remind me of the plastic eggs that come in a Fisher-Price kitchen playset

[@luanasari5161]

2:27 bro what is this shot? 💀

[@sarthaksharma9129]

Kte

[@keithbromley6070]

👁️👄👁️

[@TheWorldsLargestOven]

I love the amount of yolks featured here

[@DaHaiZhu]

Where we live, darker colored yokes are higher-priced because a lot of people think they are higher quality. But because this can be artificially achieved, we avoid darker colored yokes because of the high likelihood that not-so-good chemicals are being used.

[@MatheusSSales-io2zu]

I love how we get corny and eggy both in one for the script of this video 🤣❤️

[@IanD.]

I'm so used in eating lighter colored egg yolk that i thought those orange yolks are spoiled ones. I didn't know they are the preferred ones

[@crystals5036]

‘But at the same time, I’m fascinated by the fact that colour has such power over what we Waste.

[@marcelineraber]

3:37 "and there's a trend in Japan--" "HATSUNE MIKU!?"

[@micahphilson]

I can't be the only one who likes yellow yolks way better than super dark orange ones. Those are super off-putting to me for some reason.

[@xkennyPLx]

Did you hear about the egg who had an eggsistential crisis? He felt like a shell of his former self after the chick hatched.

[@amazinggrapes3045]

I feel dizzy. Why do most eggs have a sickly yellow color when if you get decent, no-antibiotic ones they're a rich orange? I've explicitly been told that the color is an indicator of health. And carotenoids are nutrients, so wouldn't that be true...? This is SO CONFUSING