Brown shelled, white shelled, speckled shelled – it doesn’t matter. All eggs are nutritionally equal. Eggshell color tells you nothing about the quality of the egg, the health of the chicken, or how well the animal was raised. But it does tell you the breed of hen. White shelled eggs are from white longhorn chickens, brown shelled from Rhode Island Reds, and blue shelled from South African Araucanas. Some breeds even produce freckled eggs.
In certain areas of the country, you pay a premium for brown-shelled eggs, in other places white-shelled cost more. Marketers want you to believe that the color of the shell somehow makes the egg more natural or healthier. Neither is true and remember you throw away the shell you may have paid a premium to buy.
