Chicken egg is a nutritious product that contains a large amount of substances valuable to the body. From eggs you can cook a lot of delicious and satisfying dishes - from simple scrambled eggs to pastries. True, to create some of them you need to know the weight of this product exactly.
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How much do eggs weigh
The mass of raw chicken eggs can vary from 40 to 80 grams. The largest will be eggs belonging to the highest category and indicated by the letter "B" - their weight is usually 75-80 grams. The price of such a product, of course, is always more expensive. A little less weight in selected eggs is 65-75 grams. The remaining eggs are divided into three categories. The first includes those whose weight is kept at around 55-65 grams. The second - eggs weighing from 45 to 55 grams, and the third category includes products of 40 grams.
Moreover, the egg mass does not always depend only on size. Of great importance is the weight of the protein, since it accounts for more than half the mass of the product. The yolk accounts for about 36% of the total weight, and the shell for the remaining 12-13%. Thus, we can safely say that eggs of the highest category contain the largest amount of protein, which, by the way, is almost completely absorbed in the human body.
The weight of the largest chicken in the world, listed in the Guinness Book of Records, is 136 grams.
The weight of a boiled egg is about the same as that of a raw one, but a fried egg in a pan will be slightly less. But the calorie content of fried eggs is always much higher - if the fresh contains from 50 to 80 kcal, then in the pan cooked in the pan it will be about twice as much.