Do Japanese Children Really Eat 6 Eggs For Breakfast?
There is a claim that resurfaces on social media every now and then: children in Japan supposedly eat 6 eggs for breakfast every morning. It usually spreads through posts that begin with something like 'this is how children are fed in the Far East.'
Teyit Hattı, the fact-checking unit of Turkey's Anadolu Agency, looked into the claim and concluded that it does not reflect reality. So what is actually on the Japanese table in the morning?
A traditional Japanese breakfast: rice, fish and soup.
According to Web Japan, the cultural promotion site of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a traditional Japanese breakfast usually includes grilled salmon, miso soup, rice and an omelette. Rice porridge, known as okayu, is also a common dish on the table.
Rather than loading up on a single food, this kind of meal favors small portions of a variety of dishes.
There are eggs, but not six of them.
On the Japanese table, eggs mostly appear in the form of an omelette. The best-known example is tamagoyaki, a rolled omelette made by folding the egg over in layers.
A Japanese restaurant worker who spoke to Anadolu Agency also said that an average child usually eats toast, an omelette, bread or onigiri for breakfast.
Onigiri: Japan's handy rice ball.
Onigiri is made by shaping rice into a triangle or a ball and usually wrapping it in seaweed called nori. It can be filled with fish, pickles or other ingredients.
Because it is easy to carry, it often turns up both at breakfast and in school bags.
The Japanese really do eat a lot of eggs.
Here is the interesting part of the claim: the Japanese really do love eggs. According to International Egg Commission data, annual per capita egg consumption in Japan was 339 eggs in 2022, putting the country second in the world after Mexico. This was reported by the Japanese newspaper Mainichi.
In other words, the average Japanese person eats roughly one egg a day, which shows how far the claim of 6 eggs every morning is from the truth.
The secret of the Japanese breakfast is not the number of eggs, but the variety of dishes.
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