egg as food

edible animal product
Product food_ingredient Q93189
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Summary

egg as food is a food ingredient[1]. It draws 9,938 Wikipedia views per month (food ingredient category, ranking #11 of 98).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: shape[3], animal-based food[4]
  • Made from material: egg[5]
  • Subclass of: food[6], food ingredient[7]
  • Part of: shakshuka[8]
  • Has use: food[9]
  • Commons category: Poultry eggs[10]
  • Color: white[11]
  • Unicode character: 🥚[12]
  • Has part(s): egg yolk[13], egg white[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Eggs as food[15]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17]
  • Has effect: egg allergy[18]
  • Natural product of taxon: Reptilia[19], fish[20], bird[21], monotreme[22], Amphibia[23], invertebrate[24]
  • Different from: chicken egg[25]
  • Hashtag: egg_(food)[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
  • Food energy: 70 kilocalorie[28]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for egg as food include Tamagotchi[29], a video game[30], in Japan[31], founded in 1996[32]; robin egg blue[33], a color[34]; and MAVE Jičín[35], a business[36], in Czech Republic[37], founded in 1990[38], headquartered in Radim[39].

Why It Matters

egg as food has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

Entities named for it include Tamagotchi[29], a video game[30], in Japan[31], founded in 1996[32]; robin egg blue[33], a color[34]; and MAVE Jičín[35], a business[36], in Czech Republic[37], founded in 1990[38], headquartered in Radim[39].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved . ucl.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C3099
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C3099, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → eggs-as-food
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: eggs-as-food, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289928663|eggs as food (#289928663)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Made from material → egg
    Topic's main category → Category:Eggs as food
    Subclass of → food, food ingredient
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007533492205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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