Poppy Bilderbeck
You may've eaten hundreds of Cadbury's Creme Eggs but do you actually know what you're eating once you crack into its gooey middle?
The sun is shining, spring has sprung and the Easter Bunny's prepping is very much underway.
However, ahead of the game and thwarting the Easter Bunny of his important role, Creme Eggs have already been spotted lining supermarket shelves since days after Christmas.
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Well, maybe not days, although, I could've sworn I once saw an Easter egg appear before Christmas had even passed - pre-empting the death and rebirth of Christ as quickly as his initial birth.
However, supermarkets certainly have a point and aren't just popping eggs out early for no reason, many of us partial to a Creme Egg at any time of the year, not just upon reaching spring.
They make the ideal sweet snack, chomped down in a matter of bites, your teeth sinking into a deliciously oozy, gooey centre.
But do you actually know what you're eating? Sure, the chocolate shell is very much identifiably chocolate, but what about the filling inside and is there an actual name for it? Prepare for some elite pub quiz knowledge.
Despite the name and the inside substance being white and yellow, there is not, in fact, an actual chicken's egg lying in wait you should you crack open a Creme Egg.
Over the years, it's cause a lot of head-scratching online.
"I have a huge problem weighing on my mind: What is the substance in the middle of a Creme Egg called? What is it? A goo?" one social media user wrote.
"Confession time: I thought creme eggs had actual egg inside so I avoided them til like.. last year," someone else admitted.
"I just learned that the inside of a creme egg is made of fondant and the foundations of my world have crumbled," another posted on X.
Indeed, Cadbury UK's website brands the inside of the egg a 'gooey, indulgent white-and-yolk fondant centre'.
And as to what it's made up of? Well, sugar, milk, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, invert sugar syrup, whey powder, cocoa mass, vegetable fats, emulsifier, dried egg white, flavourings and colour.
If you really want to get down into it too, per 40g egg, there's 26g of sugar, 6.2g of fat and 177kcals of energy.
But let's not forget about the most superior small chocolate egg snack of all.
If you think anything overtakes that of the Mini Egg, you are grossly mistaken.
And lucky enough for fans of the speckled multi-coloured eggs, there's a shopping hack to buy Mini Eggs for half the price following backlash over 2026 price hikes.
Fans took to social media in outrage after spotting a standard 256g bag of the sweet treats from Cadbury had been raised to £6.55
Thankfully, the 'shrinkflation' can be combatted if you get a bit more savvy about where you shop your eggs from.