Google is removing the egg from its salad emoji as part of a drive to make it more inclusive for vegans.

The emoji is being edited in the Android P Beta 2 software update, which is due to come out this summer, along with a host of other emoji alterations.

Jennifer Daniel, the UX Manager for Google emoji who has been sharing the some of the upcoming Android emoji changes on Twitter, heralded the move as proof that the company was making diversity and inclusion a “priority”.

She said: “There's big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google so if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the emoji— we've removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad.”

Ms Daniel later added that the move was also to bring the salad in line with the Unicode industry standard description of the emoji, which doesn’t include egg.