How many eggs can you eat a day?
There is no single official daily limit for healthy adults. Large studies looking at egg-eating habits over the years have generally struggled to find a clear, consistent risk tied to eating them regularly, even at close to one a day, but that's a pattern in population data, not a guarantee for any individual person.
Worth holding that lightly rather than as proof: this kind of research shows patterns rather than hard cause and effect, and that caveat applies just as much to the older research that first raised concerns about eggs as it does to the newer, more reassuring findings. On balance, though, the modern picture is considerably more relaxed than the old one.
Many people can eat eggs regularly as part of a varied diet without it being a particular concern. But individual circumstances and the rest of the diet matter more than fixing on one universal number: someone eating eggs alongside a lot of saturated fat and little else is in a different position to someone eating them as part of an otherwise varied plate. People with existing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or a cholesterol disorder are the clearest exception, and should go by their own doctor's guidance rather than general population data.
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