04-09-2013, 09:32 AM
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Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Blue eggs could be in supermarkets soon and, apparently, 'they taste much nicer and are healthier' than boring old white and brown ones.The strange colour is actually the result of a harmless retrovirus which infected the chicken - and their European descendants, Araucana.
The results could allow further research into creating blue eggs “to order” if demand is there.
The blue pigment is due to a unique quality of retroviruses - it’s possible for genetic material from a retrovirus to become permanently incorporated into the DNA of an infected cell.
The retrovirus caused chickens to accumulate a green-blue bile pigment called biliverdin in the eggshell - but the survival of the “blue eggs” through the centuries must have been due to chicken breeders, the researchers say.
Has anyone tried these yet?
04-09-2013, 10:07 AM
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Re: Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Originally Posted by MKJ
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Blue dogs and now blue chicken eggs? You looking for a way to start 'blue' threads? I know a place where such threads would be very welcome - Adult Humour' 
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just trying to find different topics - I hadn't connected a blue theme 
04-09-2013, 10:11 AM
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Re: Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Originally Posted by ben-varrey
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I did wonder if they taste better or are healthier or if it's just a marketing ploy. Not sure I'm happy about the whole virus thing though!
04-09-2013, 05:20 PM
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Re: Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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Some duck eggs are a very pale blue colour and we've been eating them for decades - so what's the aggro about 'blue' chicken eggs - so the shells are a different colour - so what????
Who's getting aggravated by it?
04-09-2013, 05:21 PM
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Re: Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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We have been brainwashed to believe they should be brown I guess. I have never understood that either we don't eat the shell so what is inside it should be what is important.
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