Easter eggs are now in the store for months. Delicious, but they are also calorie bombs. Here you can see how many calories you eat.
In the Netherlands, we eat a considerable number of Easter eggs every year. Major supplier Hema checked it out a few years ago: we eat 43 on average. According to the Hema survey, we eat the most Easter eggs before Easter, an average of 34 eggs. During Easter there are an average of 13. That way we get a lot of calories.
How many calories are in an Easter egg?
An average milk or white chocolate egg contains between 40 and 50 calories. For this you need to run for about five minutes to burn it off.
Variants with a filling contain more sugars and calories. This is not surprising, since the fillings can be disco dip, tompouce, cheesecake and popping sugar. Or caramel sea salt, of course, also a popular variant.
Striking: the tompouce eggs from Hema contain twice as many calories as a dairy egg. The special eggs from Hema are somewhat larger than the standard eggs; they weigh an average of 13 grams compared to 7.5 grams.
Tap an Easter egg in the image below to see how many calories it contains.
Less extreme flavors of Easter eggs
Bad news for fans of ‘crazy’ flavours: trend watcher Anneke Ammerlaan expects us to see them less and less.
“We have now had that trend. Every year there is a search for something new. It just seems more like stores come up with some crazy flavor to get attention. It’s more about being special than creating a great taste.”
What is definitely out: Easter eggs with fruit filling. ,,This may also be due to the structure”, suspects Ammerlaan. “That is also an important factor for consumers today. Fruit eggs often had a fondant filling, people don’t really like that grainy structure anymore.”
These are the most sold flavors
“What you see is that, despite the special flavours, the eggs in milk, pure, white and with praliné are still the most sold,” says Ammerlaan. “You can usually eat these for a longer period of time and they are not too sweet.” Albert Heijn says that milk and white are still the most popular for their own eggs. And then the massive version, so without filling.
This article was previously published and updated to reflect current events.
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