From a poultry farm in Malappuram, a city in India, the image of green eggs originated. Anyone would think they were rotten, but no, the reality is that they do exist.
In 2020, the owner of the place told The News Minute that they were “astonished” by the posture of a chicken. “We didn’t eat it,” the farmer confessed. But he was not one but all those he put.
Curiosity led them to incubate them, perhaps they hoped to obtain green chicks, but the result was different: they began to lay eggs with green yolks. In the end they ended up eating them and discovered that the flavor was identical to the traditional ones.
Alien chickens? Neither! The Karala University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences had started the research and tests from the farm and concluded that It is not about genetics, but about the diet that these birds received.
However, the most curious thing is that the owner of the place clarified that he did not give them any particular product.
And what is the reason for them to lay green eggs?
Once the University of Kerala took over the chickens’ diet, “the yolks of the eggs gradually turned yellow,” the researcher explained.
From these results, the researchers concluded that Green eggs originate from the action of a medicinal herb: Sida cordifoliaas published Huffington Post.
The scientists explained that this natural species usually grows in some backyards of houses in Kerala, so they were surely consumed by these chickens, allowing them to produce green eggs.
This is how the white and yolk of the eggs discovered in India were appreciated. Photo: Video capture
Curiosity about green eggs arose again, after this Tuesday the WCTV network broadcast a new edition of Cooking with Will, where they prepared a recipe for green eggs with ham. However, the cook used two bottles of food coloring.
Benefits of green eggs
From Pergamino, an Argentine city located north of Buenos Aires, you can also see this phenomenon where chickens throw colorful food. But here they are not referring to a herb, but simply to a specific breed of these birds.
According to the portal Miter and the Field, many associate the color of the feathers with that of the shell. They even claim that It is a natural genetic process that comes from biliverdin, a green pigment “from the bilirubin family.”.
It has already been proven that green eggs are edible, just like traditional ones, however, Peruvian researcher Johnny William Escate stated that They also offer better nutritional properties.
“The green egg has a higher percentage of white, even with better antioxidant effect and a better quality in proteins than the brown and white ones”he stated in his study.
But unlike those that were discovered in India, these have the yolk and white of the same color as normal eggs, only the shell being green.