Fact Check: Truth Behind The Viral Video Showing A Boiled Egg With A Stamp On It

Shoaib Gani

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It is a well established fact that in most of the cases ‘fake news’ gets unreported and it stealthily indoctrinates the vulnerable section of our society and nobody even cares to prove the facts behind the news.

A video now viral on social media, shows a boiled egg with a stamp on it. The commentary behind the video describes the situation in a such a sensational way that people started believing him without trying to know the facts.

The video has already fetched millions of views and thousands of comments, with people showing concern towards the quality of eggs being consumed by the people.

“This is an artificially made egg” is the comment written by most of the social media users, followed by “Astagfirullah ye kya ho raha hamarey Kashmir mein”.

The Fact:

When you buy an egg, you buy it raw and a raw egg contains liquid inside it – the albumin and the yolk. Now, if you try to put a stamp on a liquid surface, the ink disperses. Now, in this case, an egg remains protected by a shell and it is practically impossible to put a stamp on the liquid inside the egg.

For the sake of convenience, if by any means you were able to put a stamp on the liquid inside the egg with its shell intact, after boiling the same egg, you will find the color dispersed all over, for example, if the color used to stamp it was blue, the boiled egg will display a blue color scattered all over it. (Simple science)

What Actually May Have Happened In The Viral Video In Question:

Using the same old trick of fetching views by deceiving and misleading the social media users, the maker of the video has stamped the egg after boiling it, which is the only way you can stamp an egg after removing its shell. (No numericals needed to explain it)

The Stamps On The Eggs:

Since 2004 an EU regulation has made it mandatory for commercially produced eggs to be stamped with a number indicating the farming production method.

Egg marking is a form of egg labelling that includes an egg code stamped on the egg itself. In the EU there is a producer code regulated by law since 2004. It allows consumers to distinguish free range eggs and organic farming eggs from the industrial caged hen production.

The stamping is done on the shells of the eggs and the process is done with a vegetable-based ink, approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.  So whether you are boiling, scrambling or cracking your eggs, you can feel safe knowing the ink used is 100% food safe.