Egg Products

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How Baking Works

By Paula Figoni

Published 2003

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Egg products include various forms of eggs that are sold removed from their shells. The range of products includes egg whites, egg yolks, and whole egg products sold refrigerated, frozen, or dried. Liquid and dried egg products have been available since the late 1800s, but quality was generally poor. Today, however, about one-third of the eggs used in the United States are egg products.

Changes in processing have improved over the years so that frozen and refrigerated liquid egg products can be used in place of shell eggs in most bakeshop applications. While the viscosity of frozen products changes somewhat over time, for the most part this does not affect their properties. Dried egg products are less popular in the bakeshop than liquid egg products, although they, too, can be used successfully in many applications.