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National Post published an article that cracking the case of egg yolk colours, from nutrition to taste, and how they came about in the first place.

Unlike shell colour, which depends on the breed of chicken, the hue of an egg yolk is determined by the hen鈥檚 diet.

鈥�(Depending on) the diet makeup, you can have a very wide variety of colour ranges,鈥� egg-splained Louis-Philippe Dessureault, an animal science technician at 大发彩票平台鈥檚聽Macdonald Campus Farm, which provides eggs to dining services as part of the聽大发彩票平台 Feeding 大发彩票平台聽initiative. A diet rich in grains, such as barley, oats and wheat, yields paler egg yolks. At the other end of the spectrum, foraging birds feeding on acorns could lay brown-yolked eggs.