All four of England's team contained medalists from the individual events, with Alistair Brownlee and Jodie Stimpson claiming their second golds of the Games.
With the help of Jonathan Brownlee and Vicky Holland, the world champions finished 49 seconds ahead of South Africa, who just edged Australia out of the silver medal in the home straight.
In gymnastics, Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko took her personal gold tally to five with victories in the individual hoop, ball and clubs finals, but she had to settle for bronze in the ribbon as Francesca Jones claimed a first gold of the event for Wales.
Daniel Repacholi of Australia went better than his bronze medal from 2010 with gold in the men's 10 metre air pistol final, while skeet silver medalist in Delhi, Georgios Achilleos, claimed gold this time around for Cyprus.
India dominated proceedings in the women's 10m air rifle, with Apurvi Chandela's score of 206.7 points seeing her take gold from compatriot Ayonika Paul.
Defending badminton mixed team champions Malaysia booked their place in the quarter-finals with a 5-0 win over Sri Lanka, and set up a last-eight clash with hosts Scotland.
Women's Olympic under 78 kilogram judo silver medalist Gemma Gibbons could add Commonwealth gold to her collection later on Saturday when the Englishwoman faces Natalie Powell of Wales in one of five judo finals.
There was gold for South Africa in the lawn bowls mixed pairs B2/B3 after a 14-10 win over Scotland, while Australia claimed bronze after beating New Zealand.
New Zealand began their defence of the rugby sevens crown with wins over Canada and Scotland, and their hockey team recorded a convincing 8-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in the preliminary round.
The pool matches in the netball competition saw Australia beat England 49-48 in a tense encounter, while Scotland's Cameron Brodie and Hannah Miley made the swimming finals of the men's 200m butterfly and women's 200m breaststroke respectively.
Saturday also saw Australia's Annette Edmondson take gold in the women's 10 kilometre scratch cycling race in the velodrome, while the semi-finals of the women's team table tennis competition pitted Singapore, India, Malaysia and Australia against each other.
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