Easter is the holy Christian holiday celebrating Jesus Christ returning from the dead. Today, gifts of chocolate eggs are given to represent this. Here’s 14 egg-citing facts about Easter.
- The UK’s first chocolate egg was made by Fry’s of Bristol in 1873.
- The world’s tallest chocolate Easter egg was made in Italy. It was measured at 10.39 metres tall and weighed in at 7,200 kg. The egg was taller than a giraffe and heavier than an elephant!
- The average time to start on your first easter egg is around 11am on Easter Sunday Morning….
- …However 43% of children admit to giving into temptation before the big day.
- The world’s most expensive edible Easter egg was made in 2016. It was created by La Maison du Chocolat and had over a hundred half-carat diamonds encrusted into the shell – it had a whopping £50,000 price tag on.
- On average a child in the UK receives 8.8 easter eggs. That’s double their recommended calorie intake for a whole week.
- Enough Cadbury’s Creme Eggs are made in Birmingham every year to make a pile ten times higher than Mount Everest if you put them on top of each other. Over 1.5 million are produced every day!
- 58% of children consider chocolate to be most important part of Easter, with 30% eating their egg instead of breakfast.
- That lovely crocodile pattern often on chocolate eggs comes from Germany and was designed to to cover any imperfections during production – not just to make it look pretty.
- Easter chocolate sales make up 10% of Britain’s annual spending on chocolate.

Easter bunny
- The largest ever Easter egg hunt was in Florida, where 9,753 children searched for 501,000 eggs.
- When people eat a chocolate Easter bunny, 76% bite the ears off first, 5% go for the feet and 4% opt for the tail.
- Households in the UK roughly spend an average of £75 on Easter treats each year. That’s a lot of chocolate!
- The custom of giving eggs at Easter has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and the Romans, for whom the egg was a symbol of life.
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