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If your jaw is on the floor, we can relate.

By turning the egg upside down, youre introducing more separation between the yolk and the air pocket.

Understanding the anatomy of an egg helps explain why this trick works.

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Lisa Steele is a fifth-generation chicken keeper from Maine and the author of the blog and the Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook.

You already know that inside every egg there is a yolk surrounded by egg whites.

The egg whites also keep bacteria away from the nutrient-rich yolk.

But if they get to the yolk where all the nutrients are, bacteria can certainly thrive and grow.

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This air sac grows bigger and bigger as the egg gets older, Steele explains.

(This is how an unborn chick would be able to breathe inside the egg.

), it can make all the difference.

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Talk about food for thought.

Heres what a registered dietitian has to say about eggs, aka natures multivitamin:

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