Eggs-traordinary: The top 10 Easter egg facts you never knew

Read on for 10 extraordinary Easter egg facts that you may not know!

06:52 19 April 2014

Roll up, roll up, here are 10 fun facts about Easter eggs! 

 

1.With 90 million chocolate eggs sold in the UK each year, it is no wonder 19per cent of British children said that they got sick from eating too much chocolate over the Easter Holidays. 

 

2.Children in the United Kingdom wolf down an average of eight Easter eggs every year. 

 

3.Almost half of UK children admitted that they eat their first chocolate egg before Easter Sunday. 

 

4.Sales at Easter time make up 10per cent of UK chocolate spending for the whole year.

 

5.People in North-east England and Scotland roll painted eggs down steep hills as a traditional celebration of the period. 

 

6.The first chocolate egg in the UK was produced in 1873 by Fry’s of Bristol. 

 

7.Cadbury’s Crème Egg is the world’s most popular egg-shaped chocolate. 

 

8.In 2007, an egg which is covered in diamonds was sold for almost £9 million.

 

9.Eggs may not come in all different shapes, but they do come in all different sizes.

The tallest chocolate Easter egg was made in 2011 in Italy. Towering 10.39 metres, it weighed 7,2000 kg. 

 

10.London has previously hosted the world’s biggest Easter egg hunt.