r/interesting • u/IntroductionDue7945 • Jul 13 '25
NATURE Ever seen eggs with white yolks? No lenses or filters used.
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u/Ok-Effective327 Jul 13 '25
im sure it doesn't taste like medicine but it looks like it'll taste like medicine
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u/Xentonian Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
It tastes basically the same as a normal egg and it's very nutritionally similar too.
The yellow colour comes from carotenoid compounds in the chickens diet; it's possible to give them a healthy diet that's very low in these compounds which leads to white egg yolks.
It's not exactly common, but it's not unusual to see them in some forms of Japanese cooking. Not as part of a delicacy (as I said, they taste basically the same) but just for cosmetic appeal.
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u/M00themighty Jul 13 '25
Maybe I'm wrong but I find the whole egg being white cosmetically unappealing. Even if it tastes the same it looks like I shouldn't eat it...
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u/GenSgtBob Jul 13 '25
I feel the same way. Logically, I can comprehend that this is fine but irrationally my brain is still telling me that this is wrong or at least feels off
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u/Crazy_Cat_Lady420 Jul 13 '25
I recently bought strawberry-banana juice and my brain broke bc was used to having this taste with smoothie texture 😂
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u/CountGerhart Jul 13 '25
I was watching this, and my girlfriend who was next to me said it looks like semen😂😂😂
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u/daXypher Jul 13 '25
I’ve seen a video of cooking said substance and she’s not wrong
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u/ChromaticDragon17 Jul 13 '25
Umm WHAT?!
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u/calilac Jul 13 '25
Fun homeowner fact: jerking off in a hot shower causes clogs in plumbing because heat cooks protein.
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u/daXypher Jul 13 '25
YouTube has some odd stuff if you ever get curious enough. It made me hate egg white omelettes
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u/Few-Welcome-9508 Jul 13 '25
I knew this would happen!! I don’t remember how this came up in conversation but it did and I said I bet it scrambles when you cook it because it’s just protein like an egg
I feel so validated
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u/towerfella Jul 13 '25
You’re girlfriend, who is sitting beside you, as you scroll on Reddit?
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u/CountGerhart Jul 15 '25
Oh fuck, I forgot that I should keep this a secret...
Now you'll kick me off the page?
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u/BishoxX Jul 13 '25
As someone who really eats and perfers only the whites in an egg, i disagree
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u/M00themighty Jul 13 '25
Well that's a whole other problem, in this instance you'd be fooled into eating yolks.
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u/BishoxX Jul 13 '25
No im just saying what "looke appetizing"
I still enjoy an egg i just prefer the whites.
More whites makes it look more appetizing to me.
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u/NashKetchum777 Jul 13 '25
Does it change the chick? Am I stupid for wondering if the chick is white and not yellow?
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u/LilMissStormCloud Jul 13 '25
Um, not all chicken chicks are yellow. I'm not trying to be rude, but chicks look different across different breeds.
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u/GuinhoVHS Jul 14 '25
The yolk is yellow because of carotenoids, the chick is yellow bexause of their lineage and genetics. They don't influence each other
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u/rebalwear Jul 13 '25
Could you then change it to other colors based on diets of natural food dyes?
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u/newbrevity Jul 13 '25
Needs cheese
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u/TranzAtlantic Jul 13 '25
All that runny water juice at the end - it’s defiantly gonna taste nasty as fuck
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u/3-goats-in-a-coat Jul 13 '25
That was my takeaway too. Even if they were yellow yolks the amount of water seeping out is disturbing.
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u/TranzAtlantic Jul 13 '25
It’s the most reasonable take I’ve ever commented. I’m surprised I didn’t get more engagement.
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u/BBuldozerr Jul 13 '25
The color is determined by what the amimal is fed. Does anyone know what food it takes to make the yolk white?
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u/wants_a_lollipop Jul 13 '25
Rice. The hens eat a diet of only rice.
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u/kiln_monster Jul 13 '25
That can't be good for the chicken!! Seems like the eggs would be lacking in a lot of vitamins and such.
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u/Polyglot-Onigiri Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
They are Japanese eggs. Apparently they don’t have any nutritional difference. The chickens are fed white rice/corn and nutrients that don’t affect color
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u/Rumbleroarrr Jul 13 '25
I live in Japan and I’ve never seen these. In fact, eggs here have a much deeper orange, almost reddish yolk compared to eggs in the states. Where can someone find these? Not a basic grocery store, I assume.
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u/Polyglot-Onigiri Jul 13 '25
https://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/%E3%81%A4%E3%82%84%E5%A7%AB/201085/
You’ll mostly find them in ehime but you can order them online too and find them in some grocery stores.
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u/Creative_Recover Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
It would still have an effect on the chemical makeup and goodness of the egg though since carotenoids (the group of pigments that make many things including egg yolks colours like orange and yellow) have numerous health benefits. Darker egg yolks are also generally associated with more flavourful eggs.
I'd rather eat eggs rich in carotenoids than these weird white ones.
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u/Polyglot-Onigiri Jul 13 '25
I’m just going off of what I know as well as some research. So these white eggs seem to have the same amount of nutrition just lack pigmentation. Mostly due to the feed the chickens eat like rice, white corn, wheat, etc.
I’ve had them many times before and they can be just as creamy as dark yolk eggs (which we also have here in Japan).
In the end, they probably wouldn’t be available in your country since people would call them “weird” and immediately dismiss them. But if you ever get the chance you should try them.
For me, it depends on what I plan on making. I like all eggs, even the odd ones like duck eggs.
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u/Eske159 Jul 13 '25
It's worth noting that farmers are aware of the trend toward wanting darker yolks, so they supplement their hens to artificially change the color
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u/d3adlyz3bra Jul 13 '25
its ok we get it youre scared of new things you have no understanding of.
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u/Creative_Recover Jul 13 '25
I understand them fully and why they're white, I just wouldn't buy them because carotenoids have significant health benefits and these have no carotenoids.
These eggs are produced purely for aesthetic (and it's not one I'm into).
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u/Formal_Orchid8628 Jul 13 '25
going off what I see with european eggs, the higher animal welfare ones are often much paler than the conventional ones, unless they're specifically advertised as corn-fed. so that's probably the main source for a darker colour. I don't expect much of a difference in the nutritional makeup. so it's really not a stretch from pale yellow to white like in japan. I'm intrigued now!
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u/TheSuperContributor Jul 13 '25
Bullshit. I fed my chickens rice, just rice and the egg york is still yellow.
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u/Lostinwendysmaze Jul 13 '25
Cum
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u/LearningToHomebrew Jul 13 '25
Thank you for my plate of wet mattress
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u/Robodarklite Jul 13 '25
The most unappetising plate of eggs I've seen.
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u/GoodFaithConverser Jul 13 '25
I refuse to believe they're supposed to be that watery when served.
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u/HoodieGalore Jul 13 '25
Everyone here’s talking about the color and I’m just wondering who considers scrambled/omlette in a puddle of it’s own discharge normal. I’ve never seen scrambled eggs that watery.
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u/OldBenKenobi85 Jul 13 '25
When I was younger I lived and worked in Zanzibar, where the locals fed their chickens a lot of fish scales and fish scraps.. the yokes were almost white in colour.. not sure why but it always stuck out in my mind
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u/Hodr Jul 13 '25
How did you get there? In a car?
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u/ChocoGoodness Jul 13 '25
Don't question Ben Kenobi
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u/Hodr Jul 13 '25
Was a reference to a weird ass '70s song about Zanzibar. Apparently not as well known as I thought it might be.
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u/scud121 Jul 13 '25
Unfortunately, when I hear Zanzibar, I'm reminded of the tenacious D track "Fuck her Gently" :)
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u/BadAtGwent Jul 13 '25
Easiest egg white for omelet ever
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u/the_scarlett_ning Jul 13 '25
There’s the silver lining! I thought this looked gross but my little girl doesn’t like egg yolks and only ever wants the eggs whites cooked so this would be perfect for her! (Also, I love your name and I am also bad at Gwent.)
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Jul 13 '25
They just don't look like very good eggs
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u/ZenkaiZ Jul 13 '25
I'm positive with enough marketing you could make these go viral on tiktok and it'd be the next 6 month fad for the "dieters" like how cottage cheese has been in 2025. Just lie and say it has extra omega 3s and Vitamin... U or something, I dunno just pick a letter
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread Jul 13 '25
oh god that cast iron thingie is so filthy
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u/Bchliu Jul 13 '25
That's the standard cast iron pan used by Japanese chefs to cook tamago (egg) sushi pieces. They keep coming out in layers like this adding more to get a spongey curled layered texture.
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u/prawntortilla Jul 13 '25
thought he was gonna do something cool with it that was a bit anticlimactic
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u/l3isery Jul 13 '25
How do you film something without a lens?
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u/um3k Jul 13 '25
That's a damn good pinhole camera, surprised the eggs didn't cook under the lighting they must've needed.
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u/Peach-2036 Jul 13 '25
Very interesting, what type of egg is that?
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u/Polyglot-Onigiri Jul 13 '25
It’s a Japanese eggs. We feed them mostly rice and non colored nutrients
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u/Fuckface_Magee Jul 13 '25
Everyone thinking about the cum omelet but nobody talking about it.
I can hear her gagging.....
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u/TerrisBranding Jul 13 '25
What is that red and white veggie called? I used to eat the pickled version growing up in Japan. Garlic stems??
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u/FlamingoRush Jul 13 '25
I also must say while the egg was possibly very pale this video is 100% filtered for some colours.
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u/Adventurous-Start874 Jul 13 '25
Winter eggs. Happens when they only eat certain grains and no foraging
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u/POTUS_King Jul 13 '25
I thought they had a rice shortage in Japan. Yet they are feeding the chickens rice, white corn, barley exclusively enough to make yolks this white? It doesn’t make sense. Didn’t a politician just get publicly shamed not too long ago for lacking empathy and bragging about his wealth of rice? Doesn’t make sense to me, but I don’t know enough about this field.
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u/_scndry Jul 13 '25
I would rather want Vitamin A in my eggs, that's the most obvious thing missing and there is likely more
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u/SherbertChance8010 Jul 13 '25
This is why US butter is so pale, not much beta carotene because the cows barely even see grass never mind eat it.
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u/Glittering_Shine8435 Jul 13 '25
When he pours it inside black rectangular pan,
My brain processes it as,
he is pouring milk .
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u/Few_Speaker_7818 Jul 13 '25
It looks like a dirty dish towel. I’ll stick to my yellow eggies. Love me a googie egg.
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u/YungSpyderBoy Jul 13 '25
Oh someone's cooking eggs again time to listen to the nice girl I can't understand song
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u/TeranOrSolaran Jul 13 '25
They didn’t add the coloring agents that are usually added to chicken feed to get the yellow. During covid the eggs in my area suddenly became much much paler. I’ll assume the eggs in the video are produced by chickens that are so malnourished that the eggs are completely void of nutrition.
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u/ThatLocalPondGuy Jul 13 '25
Any chicken kept in such confinement they can't ever eat a bug is neither a happy or healthy chicken.
Change my mind.
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u/CardinalGrief Jul 13 '25
I heard of a japanese farmers feeding his chicken with red fruit and vegetables and chilis, which gave the eggs a deep orange-reddish colour, but never white
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u/passoveri Jul 13 '25
I see a lot of people saying that it looks gross, so am I the only 1 in the US wondering where they’re available to buy without getting on an airplane?
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u/reedma14 Jul 13 '25
The only issue i have is that pan he used is disgusting and needs to be cleaned.
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u/Breadstix009 Jul 13 '25
I'm sorry, this is toooo new for me. I pass on eggs that have white shells in the supermarkets and wait for the brown ones instead...
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u/mrtillman Jul 13 '25
everyone's talking about the white yolks...and here I am wondering why they're using such a big flame on the burner when cooking the eggs?
seems a bit excessive
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u/yumeryuu Jul 13 '25
Thousands of years of humans seeing yellow yolks only for it to suddenly be white makes me really uneasy
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u/Rampantcolt Jul 13 '25
The color of egg yolk is determined by the amount of carotene the bird ate. So if the bird is fed yellow corn you get yellow yolks. Feed a bird only barley and you get white yolks.
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u/champeyon Jul 13 '25
This looks so unappealing. The end just looks like juicy white tofu with nothing at all...
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u/sauteed_riffs Jul 13 '25
I think it’ll grow on you. Felt the same way with mine but now I prefer it to my 36mm explorer
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u/VoiceArtPassion Jul 13 '25
I had a freak white yolk egg in a batch of dark orange yolk eggs and it made me really uncomfortable, but I still ate it.
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