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What percentage of an average chicken egg's weight is shell?

Question #77763. Asked by miffy42.

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An average-sized egg weighs approximately 57 grams (about 2 ounces). Of this weight, the shell constitutes 11 percent; the white, 58 percent; and the yolk, 31 percent. Normally, these proportions do not vary appreciably for small or large eggs.


link http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res16-egg.html

Mar 24 2007, 6:39 PM
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