How Many Eggs Should You Eat a Week? A Nutritionist’s Guide (Updated 2025)

For decades, dietary guidelines warned against eating too many eggs — because one egg yolk contains about 185 mg of cholesterol.

But here’s what we now know:

For most healthy people, dietary cholesterol has little impact on blood cholesterol.

The 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans no longer sets a daily limit for cholesterol — and numerous studies have found:

Eating 1–2 eggs per day does not increase heart disease risk in healthy adults
Saturated fat and trans fats have a much bigger impact on heart health than dietary cholesterol
A 2020 meta-analysis in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found no significant link between moderate egg consumption and cardiovascular disease.

How Many Eggs Per Week Is Safe?
For Most Healthy Adults:

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