17 Nov2015

Xanthophylls in eggs

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It is a common practice to color egg yolks by adding pigments in the diet of layers. In fact, this phenomenon in nature is as old as the very animal kingdom. Carotenoids, and more specifically xanthophylls (carotenoids containing oxygen atoms within their molecules) give the egg yolk its natural color. Read full trial:

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