10 facts you probably did not know about eggs

Eggs are the main ingredient in many people's favorite food over the world. Even today, scientists do not know how birds started to lay eggs instead of giving birth to live kids. But we certainly know that many would not manage without bacon and scrambled eggs.

1 / In the United Kingdom it is illegal to sell washed chicken eggs while in the United States it is illegal to sell unwashed hen eggs. Mazy?

2 / Because the skin coat's protective coating is washed away in the United States, it is not advisable to store them at room temperature, so you usually find chicken eggs / refrigerators when you are in American food stores.

3 / You get only half of all the protein that a chicken egg contains and you eat it raw, compared to cooking it!

4 / Kivifåglar (see figure below) add the largest eggs in the world according to their own body size.

5 / year 1806 there was a fraudster in England called Mary Bateman. She shook "Christ is coming" on chicken eggs, which she then pushed back into the hens's ovary. Then she paid for people to witness a "miracle" when the chickens recovered the eggs again.

6 / Only one in every 20,000 eggs contains bacteria. In other words, the likelihood that an egg may contain salmonella is extremely small - more accurately 0.005% (five thousandths of a percent). In other words, if you are an average consumer of eggs, you may encounter a bacterial egg approximately every 84 years.

7 / A hen turns the egg inside his body about 50 times a day. This she does because egg yolk does not get caught on the inside of the shell.

8 / Although very rare, chickens can lay eggs containing one to egg inside the egg.

9 / If you want to scale your hard boiled eggs easily, put a teaspoon of baking soda while the egg boils. After this, carefully remove the shell on the bottom and top of the egg, then you can easily blow the egg out of its own shell!

10 / China, it has become popular to sell fake chicken eggs, which consist of, among other things, resin and coagulants. With the right equipment, one person can produce about 1,500 fake chicken eggs per day.

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