Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food & Wine / Getty Images It can be jarring to crack an egg and see a bright orange yolk instead of the expected pale yellow, or ...

An egg yolk’s color comes predominantly from carotenoids, a group of pigments produced by lots of living things...egg-cept ...

Have you ever wondered why chicken eggs can be different colors? While most eggs are white or brown, they also come in colors like cream, pink, blue and green. In addition — and this is no “yolk” — ...

To hear such crows of superiority, you’d think that hipster hen keepers invented brightly-colored yolks. But consumers have shown a preference for strikingly colored yolk for at least a century, and ...

It seems like everyone has eggs on the brain these days. Whether it's due to the protein-laden item's rising prices or the ominous bird flu that's affecting poultry, people across the country are ...