Goldhen Free Range Brown Eggs

If you’re looking for a deal on eggs, Aldi is a good place to look. Besides standard grocery store eggs, Aldi stocks pasture raised eggs, cage free eggs, and free range eggs. Here, I’m taking a look at the free range eggs the grocer sells.

Goldhen Free Range Brown Eggs are a Regular Buy at Aldi. That means you ought to be able to find them all year. They’re stocked in the refrigerator case with the rest of the eggs.

We buy Aldi products for review ourselves, and I paid $4.59 for a dozen eggs in the fall of 2025. That comes out to about 38 cents per egg.

These eggs are Certified Humane. The package states they are “sustainably raised” and were “raised on small family farms.”

The package also states these were packed in Middlebury, Indiana, at an address for Dutch Country Organics. The company’s LinkedIn page states it contracts with more than 50 local Amish farm families to produce eggs. Their eggs are also sold at Costco, Albertsons, Target, Walmart, and Kroger. Dutch Country Organics also supplies Aldi with pasture raised brown eggs.

Dutch Country Organics’ website states their eggs are USDA Organic, but I don’t see that anywhere on this Aldi egg packaging. The carton states the hens have “100% vegetable feed,” although chickens are omnivores, and if they have access to the outdoors, they likely have access to insects that supplement their vegetarian feed.

Nutritionally, one of these eggs has 70 calories, 5 grams of total fat (6% DV), 1.5 grams of saturated fat (8% DV), 70 mg of sodium (3% DV), no carbs, and 6 grams of protein.

The packaging for these free range eggs is not what you typically see for store-bought eggs. It’s a clear, thin plastic. At first, the container opens by lifting up the top portion, like a regular egg carton. But there’s another section of clear plastic still covering the eggs. That lifts off by pulling up it and toward you.

What Does it Mean When Eggs are Labeled Free Range?

To understand the free range label, it helps to know that standard grocery store eggs come from chickens that spend their lives in small cages. However, animal welfare advocates call for chickens to be raised in environments that allow them to walk around, stretch their wings, peck on the ground, take dust baths, and engage in other natural behaviors.

In response to animal welfare concerns, cage free eggs have grown in popularity (and Aldi sells them). Cage free eggs are produced by hens that are allowed to roam in large barns, although cage free hens live with the risk of getting pecked or cannibalized by other chickens.

Free range eggs, in the United States, are the next step up from cage free eggs. The USDA defines free range eggs as a product of cage-free hens that have some outdoor access. The USDA does not regulate the size of the outdoor area, and how much time the hens actually spend outdoors isn’t always clear, although Certified Humane requires a minimum of two square feet of outdoor space per hen. The Aldi free range eggs, as mentioned earlier, are Certified Humane.

(Side note: the next step up from free range eggs are pasture raised eggs, which Aldi also sells. Pasture raised eggs come from hens that spend most of their time outdoors and have at least 100 square feet of pasture per hen.)

As for how these free range eggs taste, we like them. They’re fine for scrambled eggs, baking projects, or whatever else we need eggs for.

The Verdict:

Goldhen Free Range Brown Eggs at Aldi are a step up from standard eggs or cage free eggs — but different from pasture raised eggs. These free range eggs are Certified Humane and come from hens that roam freely in large barns and also have access to the outdoors, with a minimum of two feet of outdoor space per hen. What eggs you prefer are a matter of personal preference, but these will work for whatever recipes you need eggs for.