How to Identify Fake Chicken Eggs?

Around 2009, people discovered fake chicken eggs being produced and sold in China. So, be very careful buying eggs, don’t buy the fake ones! This post will give you some tips how to identify fake chicken eggs from the real ones.

How Fake Eggs were Made?

Fake egg’s shell is made of calcium carbonate. Egg yolk and egg white are made of sodium alginate, alum, gelatin, eatable calcium chloride and then add water and food coloring. First pour a set amount of sodium alginate into warm water and mix it into egg white like shape, then mix it with gelatin together with benzoic acid, alum and other chemicals to make the egg white. Egg yolk is just adding lemon yellow food coloring. Together with calcium chloride to form egg mixture into the mold to produce the egg membrane. 

Egg shell is made of paraffin wax, gypsum powder, calcium carbonate and other materials. Fake egg is full of chemicals, the main ingredient calcium alginate, at most is a gel. Alum, gelatin etc are only as additives, auxiliary agents. There are national standards on the use of additives; the amount of them is clearly defined. In the fake eggs they have become the major components; they are not beneficial to the human body. Fake egg has little or no nutrition value compare with the real egg.

How to Identify Fake Eggs?

1. After opening the egg, egg white and egg yolk will soon mix together.

2. Fake egg’s shell is a little shinier than the real egg, but it is not very noticeable.

3. When touch the fake egg by hand, it feels a little rougher than the real egg.

4. Shake the fake egg will make some noises, because water overflows from the solid agent.

5. Real egg smells a little like raw meat.

6. Tap the egg lightly. Real egg makes a more crisp sound than the fake egg.

7. Shortly after opening the fake egg, egg yolk and egg white will melt together. This is because the egg yolk and egg white are made of the same raw materials.

8. When frying a fake egg, the yolk will spread without being touched.

No matter how good the fake egg tastes, are the egg makers afraid one day they will eat one of their own fake eggs? Hope this simple tips will benefits you.