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British Egg Week breakfasts with a hotel style twist

For British Egg Week 2017 (9– 15 October) British Lion eggs have teamed up with The Goring Hotel to share six of its famous breakfast recipes. The hotel’s Michelin-starred Executive Chef, Shay Cooper, is also providing tips and tricks on how to make the perfect luxurious hotel breakfast at...

Students told ‘go to work on an egg’

As a new academic year starts, a new report* recommends that students should go to work on an egg. A recent research review heralds eggs as an affordable food containing essential nutrients, including choline and iodine needed for cognitive function and B vitamins and iron that can support...

Wake up to British Egg Week

With British Egg Week 2017 (9-15 October) coming up, British Lion eggs has developed a toolkit to help retailers, food manufacturers and caterers to make the most of the week. The toolkit highlights a range of activity that is taking place during the week, which this year will be...

Update: statement on Fipronil

10 August 2017 British egg processors have criticised the buying policies of the UK’s major supermarkets after several of them have been forced to withdraw products from sale because they contain non-UK eggs contaminated with residues of Fipronil, which is unauthorised for food use. Ian...

BEIC statement on Fipronil

Approximately 180 farms, including egg farms, in the Netherlands have had restrictions imposed preventing them from moving eggs, manure and birds from their premises. The farms concerned are believed to have used a product in the poultry house to treat red mite which contained Fipronil...

Fitness guru Lucy Meck encourages consumers to opt for eggs every morning

British Lion eggs ambassador and fitness guru, Lucy Meck, has attributed her slim figure to ditching the doughnuts and instead eating eggs for breakfast. Speaking to the Sun’s colour supplement, Fabulous, and consumer magazine, Heat, she stated that the first change she made towards a...

Egg sales crack six billion

Egg sales have topped six billion for the first time since modern records began, with soaring sales confirming British shoppers’ growing love affair with eggs. The latest figures show a 4.8% increase in sales volume on the same period in 2016 (52 w/e 18 June 2017*), which is the equivalent...

New study ‘eggs on’ older people to increase protein intake

Details of a new study encouraging older people to increase their protein intake by eating more eggs are being presented at this year’s prestigious Nutrition Society conference. The PhD study, part-sponsored by the British Egg Industry Council (BEIC), is being undertaken at Bournemouth...

New study says an egg a day for babies improves growth

A study published in the American journal Pediatrics entitled ‘Eggs in Early Complementary Feeding and Child Growth: A Randomized Controlled Trial’ has found that eggs are a good source of nutrients for growth and development in children in Ecuador. The researchers hypothesized that...

Support the Lions – ‘scrumble’ for the scramble

Millions of Brits will be settling down to watch the first test between the British and Irish Lions and the New Zealand All Blacks on 24 June. And with the tests taking place early in the morning, it’s the perfect time to kick the day off with a tasty, protein filled egg breakfast...
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