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Egg Facts
1- An egg is 58% white, 30% yolk and 11% shell
2- Eggs can be found in non food products such as shampoo and soap
3- The average weight of an egg is about 63 grams
4- A fresh egg will sink in water and astale one will float
5- Eggs contain all the essential proteins, minerals and vitamins, except vitamin C. But eggs yolks are one if the few foods that naturally contain vitamin D
6- There are about 70 calories in an uncooked egg and 77 calories in a cooked egg.
7- The most popular way to eat eggs are scrambled and boiled followed by a fried and poached.
8- Eggs are much better if kept cool not cold.
9- Eggs should be stored vertically with the blunt end facing upwards; this prevents the air cell trying to float to the pointy end and push the yolk off centre.
10- An egg shell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface so keep them well away from anything with a strong smell!
11- The British eat around 10 billion eggs a year. Averaging around 3 each per week. Of that 10 Billion we supply apx. 4.8 million eggs a year.
12- Its not just chocolate eggs eaten at Easter, our normal eggs sales rose by about 25% over easter week in 2010.
13- According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 adults cannot boil an egg.
13- It takes between 40 minutes and an hour to boil and Ostrich egg (according to taste), when made in to an omlette an Ostrich egg will feed 8 hungry people.
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