Headline : Boilermaker Butcher Block adds eggs from chickens fed orange corn

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The eggs from chickens fed orange corn tend to have dark orange yolks because of an increased amount of carotenoids from the chickens’ diets. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Tom Campbell)

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Boilermaker Butcher Block, located in the Land O’Lakes Inc. Center for Experiential Learning at 720 Clinic Drive in West Lafayette, will now offer farm-fresh eggs laid by Purdue chickens that are fed orange corn. The eggs are being sold for $6 a dozen, with the proceeds helping to support the Butcher Block’s educational mission.

Orange corn is a nutritionally enhanced type of corn developed by Purdue agronomy professor Torbert Rocheford as part of an international humanitarian effort aimed at addressing malnutrition globally. Since 2017, Rocheford’s startup company, NutraMaize, has worked closely with the Purdue Department of Animal Sciences to demonstrate the benefits of orange corn for poultry.

A team of researchers, including Rocheford and Darrin Karcher, associate professor of animal sciences, has found orange corn to have some benefits, such as having more antioxidant carotenoids, which are associated with darker, richer yolks and reducing the risk of age-related macular degeneration. Additional research from Purdue’s agronomy and animal sciences departments and NutraMaize found that orange corn produces healthier hens.

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