Why are yolks yellow? The end of the Endian War.

[shkrobius]

The Animositys between these two Parties run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink, nor talk with each other. It began upon the following Occasion. It is allowed on all Hands, that the primitive way of breaking Eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger End: But his present Majesty's Grand-father, while he was a Boy, going to eat an Egg

Comments

[nakamura]

Спасибо, очень интересно. И картинка замечательная.

[poltorazhyda]

In Iraq and Afghanistan yolks are still pale.

[shkrobius]

Not for long.

[pashkin_elfe]

In South Asia cow milk and butter with yellower color are considered more beneficial than those from buffalo which are white.

[shkrobius]

I am old enough to remember the same thing in Russia. There was a special butter called "vologodskoe maslo" that was believed to be vastly superior to any other kind on the account of its yellowish tint.

[pashkin_elfe]

Probably it was due to carotenoids supplement in cows. (or maybe in Vologda it was so much carrot that it was fed to cows, not only horses that it was really believed to keep fit for work and long running on a diet containing carrot.) And also it can be designed to distinguish real cow butter from substitutes like 'margarin' etc.

The same thing was about different sorts of cheese in Russia. Howewer the difference in yellow color between buffalo's and cow's clarified butter is much greater.

[shkrobius]

I suppose they were putting food coloring into this "premier" butter. They probably put it into margarine, too; I recall it was garishly yellow. Possibly it was made fron sunflower oil and was not well rectified and they needed a dye to mask the residual color.