The weight of chicken eggs clearly reflects the health of the hen and the nutritional value of the product itself. The weight of the product depends on the age of the chicken, its breed and health status. This indicator is very important for farmers who sell eggs.

According to the labeling table, the average weight of 1 chicken egg is 60 g. This is the CO/DO category.

Useful weight

Useful mass is the weight of chicken eggs without shells. An egg consists of a shell, white and yolk. The volume of the yolk is approximately 34% of the total, the white - 55%, the shell - 11%.

Weight of an average chicken egg in grams in parts:

• General – 60;
• Yolk – 20.4;
• Protein – 33;
• Shell – 6.6.

If you need to determine the useful mass, but there are no scales at hand, it can be calculated.

It is different for each individual category:

• DM - 71.2 g;
• CO – 62.3 g;
• C1 – 53.4 g;
• C2 – 44.5 g;
• C3 – 35.6 g.

Weight of cooked product

During heat treatment, products lose weight. But a hard-boiled or soft-boiled egg will remain the same as a raw one.

Marking and weight

The marking consists of a letter and a number, where the letter is the category and the number is the grade. Apply directly to the shell or container. Size affects the grade, and grade affects the price.

Category	Variety	Sign	Weight, g
Dining room	Higher	NE	75–80
	Selected	CO	65–75
	First	C1	55–65
	Second	C2	45–55
	Third	C3	35–45
Dietary	Higher	Far East	75–80
	Selected	BEFORE	65–75
	First	C1	55–65
	Second	C2	45–55
	Third	C3	35–45

Dietary food is stored for up to 7 days. If it is not sold within its expiration date, it goes into the canteen category.

At room temperature and air humidity of 85%, dietary eggs can be stored for up to 25 days; in the refrigerator - up to 90 days. The countdown is from the date of sorting, not production.

Imported products

The designation of foreign products differs from that adopted in the CIS countries. European weight standards have been shifted downwards.

Table of designations for imported eggs.

The stamp contains the manufacturer's country code. Germany – 2, for Holland – 6.

This is indicated when marking:

• 0 – agricultural production;
• 1 – free content;
• 2 – the bird is kept on a perch;
• 3 – the chicken lives in a cage.

If the eco-friendly icon is present, then the laying hen's diet did not contain genetically modified grains. She was kept on open pasture and fed chlorophyll-rich feed.

Strict restrictions are imposed on the use of various veterinary drugs: fertilizers, antibiotics, growth stimulants.

On a note

Some useful facts:

1. Recipes usually indicate the C3 grade.
2. The color of the yolk depends on the chicken's diet. Unscrupulous manufacturers add dyes to food to increase saturation.
3. The older and larger the chicken, the larger the product. There is also a dependence on the breed. A meat or ornamental breed will not live up to expectations.
4. The shell is impenetrable to bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms. It has a porous structure and allows air, moisture and ultraviolet rays to pass through. Its color does not affect the nutritional value and set of microelements.

Piece sales

One careless move and instead of a neat egg you get an unappetizing mixture. Therefore, the fewer manipulations are carried out, the fewer losses the manufacturer will incur.

Selling in kilograms is not economically profitable, since the price will have to include defects and weight loss during long-term storage. This will lead to a decrease in demand.

Important information

What you should pay attention to:

• Cracked testicles should not be eaten. Through damage to the protective cover, the causative agent of salmonellosis, the salmonella bacterium, can enter there;
• Dirt, droppings, and stuck feathers do not indicate “organicity,” but rather a failure to comply with sanitary standards by poultry farm workers;
• Storage: in a cool, damp place, away from foods with strong odors, raw meat, fish;
• The manufacturer may put the wrong stamp, so you need to open the opaque container.

Eggs are a tasty and healthy poultry product loved by many. They are edible in raw and thermally processed form, and are used as ingredients in cosmetology and alternative medicine.

Many culinary recipes require a certain number of grams of chicken egg or melange to be put into a dish, so knowing how much a chicken egg weighs is useful for both a professional chef and an ordinary housewife.

There is an opinion that the smaller the eggs, the tastier and healthier they are, subject to dietary freshness, of course. This is considered so because small testicles As a rule, they are produced by young hens, while large eggs are most likely to be produced by adult hens and will weigh noticeably more. It is a proven fact that the product produced by young animals is of better quality than that produced by older animals.

Categories

The weight of one chicken egg in Russia corresponds to the category

Eggs are most often sold in packages of ten to thirty pieces. Containers for eggs can be either plastic or made of cardboard. Ten pieces in a cardboard container weigh more than a dozen of the same category in a plastic package.

marking

Each egg sold in a store must have a certain marking on it. By marking you can find out freshness and size. The marking consists of two symbols, where the first symbol is the size of the egg, and the second is its freshness. Freshness comes in two types and is designated either by the letter D - a dietary egg laid no more than seven days ago. Or the letter C - a table egg laid more than seven days ago.

The following markings correspond to the sizes of eggs:

• B - highest category,
• O - selective category,
• 1 - first category,
• 2 - second category,
• 3 - third category.

How much do the components weigh?

The egg of any bird, including chicken, consists of a shell, white and yolk. Of course, the weight of these components depends on the category of the testicle. Yes, one yolk, no white and the shell weighs on average from twelve grams in a specimen marked “3” to twenty-five grams in an egg of the highest category.

The yolk in eggs of the second, first and selected categories weighs twenty-two, nineteen and sixteen grams, respectively. In some of them maybe two yolks, but then each of the two yolks will be smaller than in a shell with one yolk.

The white weighs one and a half times more than the yolk. One chicken protein, without yolk and shell, weighs from twenty-three grams for the third category and up to forty-six grams if the shell is marked B.

The protein from an egg of the second category usually weighs twenty-nine grams; in the first and selected category of eggs, the protein will weigh thirty-four and forty grams

A boiled egg weighs about the same as a raw one unless, of course, it is peeled. If you remove the shell from a boiled egg, its weight will decrease by the weight of this shell.

The shell usually weighs up to ten percent of the weight of the egg itself. Accordingly, without the shell, they will weigh on average by category.

• Highest - 72 grams or more,
• Selected - 63 grams,
• The first one is 54 grams,
• Second - 45 grams,
• The third is 36 grams.

Over time, the weight of a fresh egg gradually becomes less. This happens because water molecules from chicken protein penetrate the shell and gradually evaporate. Due to loss of moisture, the weight of the white and yolk may decrease by several percent, however, if it is then boiled, the weight may be restored due to the absorption of water.

Egg weight of different chicken breeds

Depending on the breed, hens lay eggs of different sizes and weights. The largest ones are laid by High Line chickens. Shell these testicles brown in color, their weight starts from sixty-five grams! They are also quite large in the Loman Brown and Isobraun breeds. Even the smallest testicle from chickens of this breed will weigh no less than sixty grams. These chicken breeds were bred in Europe.

Our domestic breeds lay smaller eggs. So the Russian White and Oryol breeds can carry a specimen weighing, on average, sixty grams. The Pavlovsk breed produces an even smaller product - about fifty grams.

Egg weight after heat treatment

It is well known that eggs can be used to prepare a huge variety of dishes. And this is not counting those dishes that include eggs. as an ingredient. Testicles themselves are a balanced and self-sufficient food. They are boiled, fried, baked in the shell or without it. In addition, egg whites and yolks are eaten raw, in their natural form, or prepared from them in various, most often dessert, dishes. Such as eggnog or protein cream.

During the cooking process, the weight of the egg contents changes, sometimes insignificantly, and sometimes very noticeably. Egg boiled in shell almost identical by wet weight. A boiled poached egg will be a little heavier than the same one, but raw. Fried fried eggs will reduce weight quite significantly, up to twelve percent or more due to the evaporation of water, mainly from the protein.

Thus, an egg of the highest category, which weighed eighty grams before frying, when shelled and fried, will ultimately weigh only sixty-two grams. And if you bake it in the oven as an omelette, the losses can be even greater due to the evaporation of moisture from the yolk.

The heaviest chicken eggs in history

The largest chicken egg to date was laid in 2011 on the territory of Georgia in the Zestafoni region. Its weight was 170 grams, it was long more than 8 centimeters, and in width - more than 6 cm. When the owner saw how much the egg laid by his laying hen weighed, he immediately put it in the refrigerator and sent an application for a record to the Guinness Book of Records.

Previously, the record belonged to the UK, the city of Eastwood. The record holder's weight was one hundred sixty three grams, and it was eleven centimeters long. Of course, such records were very difficult for the laying hens; the owners report that the hens were sick for some time afterwards. Typically chicken eggs are much smaller in size.

Eggs are eaten not only as an independent product, but also as a component of many dishes in our cuisine and in the cuisines of different countries of the world. But not many people know about this, and this is important in order to correctly choose the amount of food for a particular dietary dish and calculate calories when eating on a diet.

In the Russian Federation, the weight of eggs is divided according to established legislation. After all, this issue is important not only in the personal households of citizens, but also when selling this product in stores. Depending on the established category of the chicken egg, the weight will depend.

As for the averages, if you don’t buy the product in the store, but simply collect what the chicken laid, it will weigh about 40-65 grams. Most often we are talking about 60 grams. So, this particular weight can be considered average for a standard chicken egg.

Interesting! It turns out that in one kilogram of eggs, depending on what category of product you weigh, there can be from 15 to 25 medium-sized eggs. A dozen chicken eggs, respectively, are about 400-650 grams.

The weight chart shown is for eggs in the shell. But it can also highlight the weight of an egg without a shell, as well as the weight of the white or yolk separately. Let's take a closer look at this data.

Selected chicken egg: 65-74.9 weight in shell, 59-68 grams weight without shell, 36-41 grams white weight and 23-26 grams white weight.

Marking features

It turns out that if you buy a product in a store, you can determine the weight of the egg simply by looking at the labeling. It must be applied to poultry farms after sorting. Most often in cooking, eggs of the third category are used, which weigh on average 40 grams.

Each egg must be marked; this is clearly stated in the legislation. By the way, the price also depends on the category. The third category of eggs is, of course, the cheapest. After all, such a product will be the smallest in weight.

Large eggs can only be obtained from elite hens. They differ not only in their size, but also in their conditions of detention and even in the variety of food they eat. But this fact does not mean that large eggs are always tastier than small products. The same can be said about benefits.

Here, rather, the difference is only in the profitability of sales. So, what size eggs to buy depends only on the desire of the housewife and financial capabilities: they will all be tasty and healthy.

Interesting! The world's largest egg was recorded in Cuba. It weighed 148 grams. The smallest egg was laid by a chicken in Papua New Guinea, its weight was only 9.7 grams.

Now you can easily navigate what chicken eggs are by weight, depending on the labeling, the presence or absence of a shell. This knowledge is extremely useful when following proper dietary nutrition and preparing a variety of dishes.

According to the law in Russia, eggs are supposed to be sold not by weight, but by piece. Right at the poultry farm, after laying, the eggs are sorted, dividing them into several weight categories, then labeled and packaged. Therefore, you can find out the approximate weight of the egg by marking, which is either applied to the surface of the shell or written on the packaging and price tag. The full list of possible categories is shown in the table below.

Table of weights of chicken eggs of various categories

Marking	Weight, g	Category	Weight tolerance, g
			from	before
	40	Third	35	45
	50	Second	45	55
	60	First	55	65
	70	Selective	65	75
	80	Higher	75	-

What do numbers and letters mean?

Numbers 1 , 2 , 3 and letters ABOUT(selected), IN(highest) indicate the weight category of the eggs.

Letter WITH(table) means an egg with a long shelf life suitable for human consumption.

Letter D(dietary) means a fresh, high-quality egg, which after 7 days of storage (from the moment of laying) will lose its advantages and become a regular table egg.

What kind of eggs should I buy for recipes?

In domestic culinary recipes, it is customary to use the smallest chicken eggs of the third category, weighing 40 grams.

Why are eggs sold by the piece and not by weight?

In Russia this is prescribed by law. And there is plenty of that.

I weighed the eggs I bought and it turned out that they weigh less. Are we being deceived?

Without a doubt, poultry factories can deceive consumers by labeling dishonestly. But this can only be proven by a special inspection from Rospotrebnadzor. However, usually the weight does not match because eggs lose weight very quickly during storage due to the evaporation of moisture through the shell.

Do not use cracked eggs for food. When purchasing, don't hesitate to look for packages without cracked eggs.

If you don’t trust the store or poultry farm, then check the weight of the eggs right in the store on a check scale.

Wash them with soap before cooking.

Weight of yolk, white and shell

Most of the egg is white. During long-term storage, some of the water from the protein evaporates, resulting in a decrease in the overall weight of the egg. Often, lost weight can be replaced by adding clean water to the egg white, but this is only the case when the recipe calls for the white or the entire egg to be beaten.

Table of weight of yolk, white and shell of chicken eggs

Code	Category	General Weight, g	Weight of components, g
			yolk	protein	shell
	Third	40	12	23	5
	Second	50	16	29	6
	First	60	19	34	7
	Selective	70	22	40	8
	Higher	80	25	46	10

Weight of imported eggs according to labeling

Why are eggs sold not by weight, but by piece?

It is convenient to sell individually in packages, but it is inconvenient to sell by weight

1. The weight of eggs during storage is significantly reduced due to the evaporation of moisture through the shell. In practice, this will lead to the fact that the distribution network will buy, for example, 1000 kg of eggs from a poultry farm, but will sell only 950 kg. The weight loss of eggs due to evaporation will have to be included in the trade margin, which will lead to an increase in price.

2. Eggs are a fragile product; the more operations are performed on them, the more eggs will break and crack. When weighed during sale, the amount of broken goods will increase, which will also negatively affect both price and quality.

3. Eggs should not be sold together with other products due to the possibility of contamination of adjacent products with Salmanella. Therefore, in order to provide the opportunity to buy a number of eggs that is not a multiple of 10, the store will have to open a special department for selling eggs and an additional workplace. As you understand, the price of eggs will skyrocket to obscene levels, and small stores will not be able to afford to sell eggs at all.

Many poultry farmers are interested in the question - how much does a chicken egg weigh? Valery

Egg weight

Raw and boiled eggs are a source of protein and other substances beneficial to the human body. It is necessary to eat it daily to replenish protein and calcium reserves. Compared to the types of eggs of other birds, chicken has a fairly modest average weight - about 55 - 60 grams in each piece. Only quail eggs are smaller - 10 - 12 grams and guinea fowl eggs - 25 grams. For comparison, goose weighs from 180 to 220, duck - from 80 to 100, turkey - from 70 to 80, pheasant - from 60 to 70. It is clear that the mass of the boiled product will be slightly larger.

In addition to the mass, the common man is interested in the meaning of the letters printed on the surface of the shell. C is a table product that has a long shelf life and can be used for eating and preparing dishes. D – dietary products, fresh, subject to purchase in the first week. If a week has passed, the product automatically moves to group C.

There is a classification into categories, which depends on the variety and average weight. Premium eggs can weigh 75 grams or more. Selected ones weigh about 65 - 75, and the stamp on store-bought ones looks like O, SO, DO. Category 1 products can cost from 55 to 65 and be labeled 1, C1 or D1. Products of category 2 can weigh somewhere between 45 and 55, on it you will see the mark 2, C2 or D2. There are also category 3 eggs, their weight is quite modest - from 35 to 45, the marking 3, D3 or C3 is applied to the surface of the shell. The latter variety is most often found in culinary recipes as the main component of dishes.

In Europe, when packaging, the classification is somewhat different from the usual for our country - it depends on the external and internal characteristics of the product, and the letters A, AA, B are used for labeling. As for size, in Europe eggs are also divided into very large, large, medium and small ones.

There are generally accepted standards for the weight of protein, yolk and shell. For top quality products these figures are 46, 25 and 10 grams. In eggs of a selected type, the white should weigh 40, yolk 22, shell 8. In the first class, the white has a weight of about 34, yolk - 19, shell 7. For the second class, the following indicators are relevant - white 29, yolk 16, shell 6. The third class has The weight of the white is approximately 23, the yolk is 12, the shell is 5.

Knowing the answer to the question of how much weight one chicken egg has can help when preparing dishes. Since in almost each of them it is important to comply with certain ingredients, determine the number of calories subject to dietary nutrition. For a standard product that anyone can buy in a store, the average weight is 60 grams. It turns out that in one kilogram, depending on the type in the classification given above, there may be from 15 to 25 pieces of medium size. A dozen will weigh approximately 400 – 650.

In order to prevent the development of unwanted diseases when consuming this most valuable product for the human body, it is recommended to use it as food after heat treatment. Experts say that raw protein is only half absorbed by the body, that is, it clogs it with breakdown products. Before cooking, the products should be washed and dirt removed from the surface of the shell. This is done under running warm water, which creates pressure inside, which will help prevent the penetration of bacteria and dirty parts. The chicken waste product can be prepared in many ways - by frying, boiling, dissolving in hot water, adding to cocktails, salting or marinating, adding to cutlets or croutons, biscuit dough or meringue.

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A chicken egg is a valuable product that should be on the menu of everyone who cares about its health and appearance. It contains all the nutrients a person needs, including protein, as well as vitamins and minerals. For those who often prepare dishes using them or adhere to a healthy nutrition system, it is very important to know how much a chicken egg weighs.

general information

Each of us, when purchasing a dozen of these delicious components of any dietary menu, noticed that on the shell of each of them there are different letters and numbers. These can be C, O, accompanied by a certain numbering. This alphanumeric combination is called marking. Its simplest type will contain at least two characters - for example, C1. There are also more complex variations of stamps, where the manufacturer and other information are indicated. In order to easily and independently, without scales, determine the weight of a chicken egg, you should understand the labeling and learn to understand it.

The first symbol indicated in the labeling will indicate the type of dietary product, then its category is indicated - it can have an alphabetic or numerical designation. At the same time, the scope of application and shelf life depend on the first part of the stamp. Accordingly, there are two types of eggs:

• D – dietary, which have a shelf life of no more than a week (7 days) from the moment the eggs are sorted at the poultry farm. If they have not been sold within a specified period of time, they become canteens;
• C - tableware, which can be stored for up to 25 days.

In general, the table food is no worse in quality than the dietary food. It’s just that the second one will be fresher and will sit on the store counter for a shorter period of time. Such components of the dietary menu can be consumed both boiled, fried and raw, used as a valuable ingredient in confectionery, they are suitable for feeding small children.

The weight of an egg, depending on whether it is table or dietary, depends slightly, but it is still worth remembering that during storage of the product for a long time, moisture loss occurs due to the process of evaporation through the shell. That is why even eggs of the same category and the same size, but just laid by a hen, will be heavier than those that have been lying on the shelf in the supermarket for some time.

Minimum, average and maximum weight depending on category

Also, the labeling must include the designation of the category, of which there are only 5. Thanks to these “signs” it will be possible to determine exactly what the size and average weight will be. These are 1 - first, 2 - second, 3 - third, B - highest and O - selective categories. Knowing how much one testicle of a certain type weighs, you can approximately determine its weight.

Thus, it turns out that the average weight is about 50-60 g. Double-yolk ones, due to the double rate of yolk content, usually weigh from 80 g.

Recipes are always based on the smallest chicken eggs, category 3, weighing about 40 g.

By the way, this method of marking is used only in Russia and these are the indicator values ​​that will be relevant in our country. Abroad, the labeling will be completely different, and the average weight standards there are somewhat different from the usual ones. For example, in Europe the letter designations will be S, M, L, XL and resemble clothing sizes. And the average weights there vary from 53 to 73 g.

Mass without shell

Each egg has three components - the yolk, white and shell. In this case, the share of the last component is 10-11.5% of the total weight. Knowing this, it is easy to calculate how much one shelled chicken egg weighs. And calculating this indicator is important for those who eat strictly according to a specific program, and who like to cook delicious dishes according to exact recipes.

The weight of the shell does not depend on its color - it can have any color, and this is more likely to indicate the breed of the bird than its weight.

However, the shell should not be considered an absolutely useless part. It is perfect for use on the farm - it is used as a feed additive for chickens, and it can be used to make an excellent fertilizer for flowers. And even children's crafts using crushed shells can decorate the house.

Raw and cooked

You can eat eggs in different forms. At the same time, the boiled product is very popular; it is often included in the every day diet of any person, and can also be used to prepare all kinds of dishes. And for those who strictly monitor their diet, it is especially important to calculate how much a boiled chicken egg weighs when creating a menu.

Since during the cooking process the contents of the shell have nowhere to go, and no moisture loss is observed, we can say with confidence that the cooked product will weigh the same as the raw one. In both cases, the shell is not taken into account. But after frying, its mass will decrease somewhat.

Yolk and white mass

Sometimes you need to know how much protein a chicken egg contains by weight, as well as how much yolk it contains. These indicators can be calculated by knowing the percentage of all components of the product. So, the protein contains about 55-58.5%, and the yolk - 30-35%. Approximate indicators can be found in the table.

Marking

Knowing how many grams of protein are in one chicken egg is especially important for those who monitor their health, adhere to the basics of proper nutrition, and take care of their figure. Such people are recommended to eat only this part, separating the yolk from it.

Interestingly, it is the egg, despite its invaluable usefulness, that is considered a source of cholesterol. And most of this substance is concentrated in the yolk. Therefore, it is important to consume chicken eggs with caution. And knowing the weight of the product that chicken provides will help control the amount of cholesterol.

Contents of the article:

Why is it important to know the weight of a chicken egg? Their weight categories. Differences between Russian and European categories. Why do they differ in weight?

Not all buyers think about the size and weight of the eggs they purchase. If we need a couple for a recipe, we just grab them from the refrigerator. In some cases, for successful preparation of a dish, for example, for baking, it is necessary to take into account how many grams are in one egg. For culinary purposes, special tables have been developed for converting the number of eggs of one size into the number of another size.

Also, when preparing dishes, it is important to pay attention not only to the weight of the chicken egg, but also to the number of yolks in it. After all, sometimes you come across options with two yolks. Manufacturers have learned to manage the reproductive cycles of chickens so that they lay just such eggs. By replacing a regular product with one with two yolks, you risk getting a non-standard result.

Weight categories

For the sake of objectivity and convenience, eggs are divided into categories not by size, but by weight. When you purchase a package, do not think that all of them are the same. They are formed not according to the individual weight of 1 egg, but according to their average weight in the package. This is due to limitations in the technology for automatically sorting eggs by size. In one package they may look different in size, but their weight usually fluctuates within a certain range, regulated by documentation.

• C3 - third, weight less than 45 grams;
• C2 - second, 45-55 grams;
• C1 - first, 55-65 grams;
• O - selected, 65-75 grams;
• B - highest category, more than 75 grams.

If we take the average weight of an egg to be 50 grams, then its weight without the shell will be 5 less. The average weight of an egg white is 27 grams, and the yolk is about 18. During cooking, the weight does not change significantly, as does the ratio between yolk and white.

You can see the imported product in the store. As an approximate analogue, you can use the following correspondences between Russian and European markings:

• S (Small) correspond to Russian C3 and C2;
• M - C1;
• L - O;
• XL - B.

If you use this product to prepare basic dishes (omelet, scrambled eggs), then the weight of one chicken egg will not matter much.

In most baking recipes, the ratio between the weight of dry and liquid ingredients and the volume of yolks and whites added is important. Most of them also use large eggs (that is, the first category).

Volume characteristics of one large egg:

• 3 tablespoons ( 45 ml);
• 1 egg white = 2 tablespoons ( 30 ml);
• 1 egg yolk = 1 tablespoon ( 15 ml).

Reason for weight difference

As chickens grow older, they begin to lay larger and larger eggs. Weight: 1 pc. Chicken eggs are influenced by the breed of laying hen, seasonality, feed composition, lighting conditions and a number of other factors. Agricultural producers use these methods to produce larger specimens.

Among those on sale, the smallest eggs are quail eggs, weighing only 10-12 grams, and the largest - ostrich ( about 1.5 kilograms).

Chicken eggs are a universal product that is indispensable in the kitchen of any housewife. You can easily and quickly prepare breakfast from them; they are boiled, fried, made into snacks, salads, and added to baked goods. It's hard to imagine a kitchen without them. But if you are preparing any complex dish, with a large set of ingredients, where you need to know a lot of products used, then it will be useful to know how much a chicken egg weighs. This will make it much easier to figure out how much product you will need to add in the end.

Finding out the mass of one chicken egg is not so difficult. To do this, first of all, when purchasing a product, you need to pay attention to the packaging. Usually it uses special markings, which determine the category of the product and, accordingly, the weight. Thus, the following categories are distinguished:

1. The third category - in weight they reach approximately 40 grams and are considered the smallest. They are most often designated as C3.
2. The second category is slightly larger and their weight ranges from approximately 45 to 55 grams. The marking is C2.
3. The weight range from 55 to 65 grams is the first category and is designated C1.
4. There is also a select category, the weight of which can vary from 65 to 75 grams - designated as C0;
5. Well, the largest category is the highest (B). Typically weighs from 75 to 80 grams.

Interesting! Since during the cooking process the contents of the shell have nowhere to go, and no moisture loss is observed, we can say with confidence how much a boiled egg weighs, the product will weigh the same as when raw. In both cases, the shell is not taken into account. Here's a fried egg. the mass will decrease slightly.

Without shell

To determine weight, experts use a percentage that helps them accurately calculate the required amount.

Converted to percentages, the result is:

• shell weight – 12%;
• yolk – 32%;
• protein – 56%.

A percentage is used to determine the weight of a raw egg.

By removing the shell, we get 88% of the total mass of the egg, regardless of labeling.

Interesting fact! No matter how hard the egg is boiled, crumpled in a bag, it weighs the same as a raw egg.

Weight of white and yolk

A whole egg weighs 50g. The yolk makes up 1/3 of the egg and weighs 17g. The white makes up the remaining 2/3 of the egg and weighs approx. 33 g. And accordingly, 21 whole eggs = 1 kg 36 whites = 1 kg 53 yolks = 1 kg.

Important! We're talking about a medium, standard egg here (usually sold by the dozen in supermarkets). If you prefer to buy eggs at the market, then there are often XXL size eggs - they weigh more!

The average size, or rather weight, of a raw yolk is 25 grams for the largest egg.

As scientific experiments show, the minimum weight of the yolk starts from 18 grams. At its highest potential, it can reach as much as 27 grams, of course this is for extremely large eggs, which many consumers are afraid of, because I think that the chickens that lay them are stuffed with something.

A typical average chicken egg weighs only 60 grams, the weight of the yolk in the egg is 32-35% and this is about 21 grams for the raw yolk. The weight of the boiled yolk is similar, about 20 grams. Let's take the weight of one chicken egg as 100%, the weight of the shell as 12%, the weight of the white as 56% and 32% as the weight of the yolk.

Accordingly, the larger the egg, the larger the yolk. In this case, there are double yolks.

When buying eggs in a supermarket or household, we don’t often think about their weight.

Basically, the buyer looks at the cost of the packaging, sometimes only at home noticing that the eggs in it are too small in size.

There are actually many different types of chicken eggs.

First of all, eggs are divided into dietary (this period applies to eggs during the first week after laying by chickens) and regular table eggs (stored at room temperature for three weeks, and in the refrigerator for all 8 weeks).

1. The average egg weighs approximately 50-55 grams.
2. Smaller eggs are usually laid by pullets, the weight of such eggs is approximately 35-40 grams. And there are also very large eggs - selected ones, such as those laid by adult chickens.
3. A selected egg weighs approximately 65-75 grams, respectively, a package of a dozen selected eggs can easily be twice as heavy as the same package of pullet eggs.

Since eggs are always sold not by weight, but by quantity, it can be difficult for the buyer to correctly determine the favorable cost of a particular package. It is for this reason that there is a system for labeling eggs by category.

What do the letters on egg markings mean? Is it possible to determine the weight of an egg from them?

According to Russian laws, all eggs that go on free sale must be marked according to their quality with a certain set of letters and numbers.

• If the first letter in the egg labeling is capital D, then the egg is dietary and must be sold within seven days, then it is considered a table egg.
• If the first letter is a capital C, then the egg is an ordinary table egg (can be stored for about 25 days from the date on the package).

Next, to the letter indicating the category, another letter or number is added, indicating the category of the egg by weight.

• The letter B means that the egg is of the highest category and weighs at least 75 grams.
• The letter O denotes selected eggs weighing from 65 to 75 grams.
• Eggs lighter than 65 grams are marked with numbers: 1 - an egg of the first category weighing from 55 to 65 grams, 2 - an egg of the second category weighing from 45 to 55 grams and 3 - an egg of the third category weighing from 35 to 45 grams.

The marking must be placed both on the packaging and on each individual testicle.

So if the DV is marked in ink on an egg, this means that it weighs at least 75 grams and is dietary. If the egg is marked C1, it can be stored for up to 25 days, and its weight varies from 55-65 grams.

Sorting eggs at a poultry farm by size

Eggs are not only very healthy, they are also unique in their own way. After all, a chicken egg is one of the few products that can safely be called waste-free.

By and large, all the components of an egg can be successfully used as food: a wide variety of dishes are prepared from the yolk and white, and ground eggshells are an excellent natural source of calcium.

Just 2-3 grams of shells are enough to fully satisfy the daily need for this element. Average the shell makes up approximately 9-11% of the weight of the entire egg, which means one medium-sized testicle (with a total weight of 45-50 grams) will more than provide you with your daily calcium requirement.

Since eggs are used not only in cooking, but also for making homemade cosmetics, many housewives want to know the weight of the egg yolk and white separately from the shell. This would make it possible to more accurately determine the proportions of ingredients when preparing homemade face and hair masks. In fact, everything is quite simple here.

In order to find out how much a chicken egg weighs without a shell, you can make simple calculations based on the ratio: shell - about 10%, yolk - about 30%, white - about 60% of the total weight of the egg.

Thus, if we have an egg of the first category, we can calculate that with a total average weight of 60 grams, the shell weighs approximately 6 grams, the yolk weighs approximately 18 grams and the white of one egg weighs approximately 36 grams.

It is a little more difficult to separately calculate the weight of all the components of eggs of the highest category, since they do not have an upper weight limit. How much the yolk of a premium chicken egg weighs or its white is most easily determined using a home culinary scale.

It is interesting to note that, as it turns out, the weight of a chicken egg is a rather relative value. Despite the fact that the average testicle weighs about 50-60 grams, in the world of eggs there are both real giants and midgets.

So the world's largest egg was laid by a chicken in 1956 in America. The weight of this egg was 454 grams (about what our standard package of 10 eggs weighs). And the smallest testicle was registered in 2011, also in the USA (in Charleston). Its weight was only 3.5 grams.