Inc. All Rights Reserved. Eggs, however, are a hot item. We've definitely seen a comeback for eggs.
Eggs are back, everywhere.
Americans will eat an average of 255 eggs each this year, the most since 1985 and up from 245 two years ago. Egg consumption bottomed out at 235 per person in 1991, after a gradual, decades-long decline, the government reports. It also didn't hurt that the wholesale price of eggs dropped 22 cents a dozen from 1996 to 1999. People are coming back to eggs because they realize they don't have to avoid them entirely. The American Heart Association, once the nation's leading egg basher, is reconsidering its recommendation that people eat no more than three or four a week.