What on earth is egg yolk composed of?

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Is it an underdeveloped chick? I don’t get it

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The yolk (vitellus) is the nutrient-rich food for a developing embryo. The egg white (albumen) is there to provide a fluid for an embryo to sort of rest in, so the movement of the egg/bird doesn’t bother it.

Unfertilized eggs (the kind that we eat) do not contain any embryos.

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