Leekers

Savings on Dairy and Frozen Foods

• Why are some eggs brown and some white?
  Simply put: White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. Most eggs in the Leeker's/Checkers stores come from the following breeds of chickens: the White Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire, and the Plymouth Rock.
  
  White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.
  
  Do you want to impress someone with your chicken knowledge? If you have no idea what breed you're looking at but want to be impressive you can tell the rough color of a chicken's eggs by looking at their earlobes. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken they cam from.

• Are brown eggs healthier than white?
  According to the Egg Nutrition Center in Washington, D.C., the answer is a pretty firm "no". The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor.
  

• It takes more than 21 pounds of whole milk to make one pound of butter.
  
  
• The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from the beta-carotene found in the grass cows eat.
  
  
• More than 1,000 new dairy products are introduced every year.
  
  
• The largest share of milk products is sold through retail supermarkets, followed by dairy and convenience stores.