Do not buy Royal Duty Free's "Cage-free Eggs"

[dothackjhe]

If you are thinking of buying your food stocks this week and are considering doing it at the Royal Duty-Free with eggs on the list, do not buy their per-dozen tray, allegedly labeled "cage-free eggs".

I am not sure what the store is going for when it labeled the eggs as born from "cage-free" chickens, but whatever it is, it does not share the same meaning as ones coming from "free-range" chickens.

Why?

Here are a few nagging reasons:

• In comparison to its white eggs, their "cage-free" eggs are conspicuously smaller in size (you get less the content per egg)
• Comparing the price between a large white egg and their "cage-free" eggs, the latter is more expensive by a notable margin (a few pesos more expensive per egg or P125 per dozen/roughly P11 per egg versus a roughly P8 a piece big, white egg)
• You are not getting the benefit of what an egg that is drawn from a "free-range" chicken really would as their "cage-free" chicken egg's yolk is yellow and not orange in color: this is the most telling sign that their egg is not from a free-range chicken. Case in point, if an egg's yolk is colored orange, then it is packed with nutrients borne from a chicken being able to roam around its habitation and eat what a wild chicken would normally and not be forced fed with something artificial like their caged counterparts.

Bottom line: Royal Duty-Free's "cage-free" chicken egg is a scam. You are literally just paying more for a false label.

 

[Away From Keyboard]

másáráp yung mga itlog nang native chicken, my lasa.. tsaka specially yung bugok na itlog.. ipag palit ko kahit sa jolibee.

 

[dothackjhe]

I'm not sure. Parang di ko naman ma-distinguish kung may pagkakaiba yung lasa ng brown eggs sa white eggs. Also, sadyang mas mahal lang itong "cage-free" eggs ng Royal Duty Free kumpara sa large white eggs nila, considering yung dami ng laman.

 

[Away From Keyboard]

white eggs white leghorn-decab family yan, brown eggs rhode island red.

yung sinasabi ko is yung native chicken egg, yung maliit pa sa small size na egg. galing sa darag, parawakan at iba pang mga native chickens na hindi pa gaanong na crossbreed sa ibang bansa.

 

[dothackjhe]

Ahh, I think natry ko na yung itlog na yan a few times. Pero di ko lang napansin siguro na may something special sa native na itlog.

 

[OrangeMoon]

Kakaiba yung may orange yolk, hindi yellowish