Eggs are among the few foods that could be classified as “superfoods”. They are loaded with nutrients, some of which are rare in the modern diet.

This is your opportunity to test your knowledge about eggs. Take the quiz and find out how much you know.

The correct answers appear below.

Questions

1. How many grams of sugar are there in a single egg?
A. 10 gr
B. 23 gr
C.   0 gr
D.   5 gr

2. Does white or brown eggs have the most nutritional content?
A. White eggs
B. Brown eggs
C. No nutritional difference

3. What determines the color of an egg yolk?
A. The hen’s age
B. The hen’s diet
C. The hen’s feather colour
D. The hen’s size

4. Which part of the egg contains more protein: the white or the yolk?
A. Egg white
B. Egg yolk

5. Which part of an egg contains more fat?
A. Egg white
B. Egg yolk

6. Which of the following eggs contain the least fat?
A. Goose
B. Quail
C. Chicken
D. Duck

7. Which of the egg’s vitamins listed below can be found in the yolk?

A. A, B and C
B. A, D and E
C. D, B6 and C

8. Approximately how many carbohydrates can be found in a single large egg?
A. 0 gram
B. 0.4 grams
C. 2.5 grams
D. 1 gram

9. Blood spots in an egg yolk are also known as what?
A.    Blood clots
B.    Meat spots
C.    Protein patches

10. How many essential amino acids are found in an egg?
A. 9
B. 5
C. 3
D. 6

Answers

1. C. 0 gr. An egg for breakfast may lower your blood sugar levels for the rest of the morning and improve overall blood sugar levels.

2. C. No nutritional difference. A large brown egg contains the exact same proportion of white and yolk, and the same nutrients, as a white egg. Brown eggs simply come from a different breed of hens, which are often bigger birds and require more feed than standard white-egg-laying hens.

3. B. The hen’s diet. When they eat more yellow or orange carotenoids or natural pigments, it affects and changes the yolk’s color.

4. A. Egg white. The white of an egg contains over 50% of the egg’s total protein.

5. B. Egg yolk. The yolk contains 100% of the egg’s fat.

6. B. Quail. A serving of five quail eggs contains only 290 kilojoules – 4% of your daily kilojoule intake. It is roughly the same as one large chicken egg.

7. B. All of the egg’s vitamins A, D and E are in the yolk.

8. B. 0.4 grams. In their most natural form, eggs contain very little cholesterol.

9. C. Blood spots in an egg yolk are also known as “meat spots“. Less than 1% of all eggs produced have blood spots, which are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the surface of the yolk during the egg’s formation.

10. A. 9. One large whole egg contains 6.28 grams of protein, containing all nine essential amino acids: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lycine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine.

 

Sources

 

http://www.msn.com/en-in/foodanddrink/foodnews/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-eggs/ar-BBsJIBf#page=16
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Quiz-All-About-Eggs-3495794
https://www.diet.com/diet_quizzes/quiz_result.php?qid=67&title=The+Incredible+Egg+Quiz