super-egg.
Instead, I learned something much more useful.
The color of an egg yolk is a clue—not a complete story.
It can tell us something about pigmentation and the hen’s diet.
It can make breakfast look absolutely gorgeous.
It may even coincide with differences in certain nutrients or flavor depending on how the egg was produced.
But yolk color cannot tell us everything about the hen’s welfare, the egg’s nutritional value, or whether it was produced according to a particular farming standard.
For those questions, the carton—and ideally information from
