Eggs are a versatile product in many cuisines in the world. They are nutritious, easy to prepare and available. Although chicken eggs have long become everyday life on the shelves of shops, eggs of other birds, such as turkeys, for some reason, they remain out of the consumers. What is the reason?
As it turned out, the problem is not tasteful . Turkey eggs can be eaten, and according to farmers, they are practically indistinguishable from chicken - except a little larger, with a hard shell and a denser inner membrane. However , turkeys are practically not on sale , and there are good reasons - both in terms of biology and from the economy . The main reason why turkeys do not get to mass production are their low profitability . The turkey begins to rush only at the age of about 7 months, while the chicken - from 5 months . Moreover , the turkey lays the egg for about 24-32 hours, and the cycle lasts only about two weeks, for which it has time to demolish no more than 13 eggs. Compared to chickens that can be carried almost daily for a long period, it is a misery. In addition , turkeys require more space, special diet, and the process of keeping birds is more complex and more expensive. As a result, turkey eggs are simply not worth the resources spent in terms of a large farm business.
Despite the rarity in stores, turkey eggs are not a forbidden or harmful product. Farmers who breed turkeys often eat them . They note that the eggs are delicious, although is a little harder to break. However, it is simply unprofitable on an industrial scale Against the backdrop of conversations about turkeys eggs , one can not mention the most exotic egg in the world of birds. According to the scientist Robert Hedland of Cambridge University, the eggs are considered to be the most amazing . Their taste somewhat fishing because of diet , and the structure is unusual: boiled egg penguin is more like a ghost jelly -like ball with an orange nucleus than the usual protein with yolk.
This feature is explained by the unique composition of glycoproteins. If is dominated in chicken eggs , then penguins - penalbumin, which helps to survive in extreme conditions of Antarctic.
