Interesting fact's about Eggs

You must be quite familiar with this source of protein. Not only are they affordable, but eggs also can be cunsomed in many different ways. Want to know interesting facts about eggs? Check out the lowdown below..

Want to know whether an egg is edible or not?

Use salt water. If it floats, it’s bad. It is better to put eggs in the fridge rather than at room temperature. Eggs in the fridge will last for a week.

Which come first, the eggs or the chicken?

Did you know that this question has been asked since the ancient greek started wondering. However, scientist from Sheffield and Warwick University have found that it is the chicken that comes first. Using a super computer called HECTOR (High End Computing Terascale Resource), they discovered that no eggshell could be produced without a special protein that is present only in the bird’s ovaries.

Eggshells are made of calcium carbonate.

Though they look solid, eggshells consist of thousand of tiny pores that allow the eggs to sweat and take in oxygen from the air. White-shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and earlobes, while hens with red or brown feathers and red earlobes produced brown-shelled eggs. No reseaech has ever proved that white eggs are better than brown ones.

A hen needs 24 to 26 hours to produced an egg and can start the process again in 30 minutes !

A hen can lay 250 eggs per year. Although there is no rooster intervention, a hen can lay eggs, but they will be infertile eggs. That’s why you can’t hatch eggs that you buy from supermarkets.

The biggest egg that still exists today is the ostrich egg.

The smallest egg is the hummingbird egg. For comparison, you can put 4.700 hummingbird eggs into a single ostrich egg shell. Although it is about the size of a chicken, a kiwi bird lays an egg that can be up to half its own weight