鸡蛋有红皮、白皮、绿皮，有什么区别？_时事

鸡蛋有红皮、白皮、绿皮，有什么区别？

想要知道某只鸡下什么颜色的蛋，可以看看它的耳垂是什么颜色（没错，人家鸡也是有耳垂的！）福勒说道，“白色耳垂的鸡产蛋时通常不会分泌色素，所以下的蛋通常是白色的。”一般来说，耳垂颜色较浅的鸡羽毛都是白色的，下的蛋也是白色的，而羽毛和耳垂有色的鸡则会下有色的蛋。

Where does this color come from? Here's where understanding how an egg comes to be is important. Chicken yolks, or ova, form in the chicken's ovaries. A fully formed ovum will leave the ovary and be deposited into the oviduct. This part of the chicken's reproductive system has five distinct sequential segments which the yolk passes through on its way to the outside world, but it's the fourth one — the shell gland — that affects the color of the egg. This is where the shell forms around the ovum.

这些颜色是怎么来的？这就要从鸡蛋的形成过程说起了。母鸡的卵巢里会首先孕育出蛋黄（也就是卵子）。成熟的卵子会离开卵巢来到输卵管。在输卵管中，卵子会按顺序经过五个部分，然后才到达体外；其中第四个部分是卵壳腺，蛋壳就是在这里形成的，这个部分影响了鸡蛋的颜色。

"The shell of all chicken eggs are made of calcium carbonate, a crystal that is white in color," says Fowler. "So all eggs are, at least at the start, white. Any that we then see that are other colors have had a pigment deposited on them as they were moving through the oviduct, after the white egg shell had been deposited. You can see this if you open up a brown egg and look at the inside of the shell, it'll be white."