Boiled eggs are the most popular way to eat eggs in Britain, followed by scrambled and fried.
The fastest omelette maker is American egg-centric Howard Helmer who can rustle up 427 omelettes in 30 minutes. People have decorated and given eggs to each other in the springtime for hundreds of years, as a symbol of the new life which grows in the spring. Eggs provide lots of the essential nutrients for a balanced diet, including most of the vitamins the body needs and a wide range of important minerals, including iron and calcium. The largest egg ever had five yolks and was 31cm around the long axis. The heaviest egg weighed 454g - that's six times heavier than a Large egg from the shops.