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Good times for eggs

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The egg has bounced-back.  The American Egg Board says per capita egg consumption has increased from 247.9 in 2011 to 251.3 in 2013.  Estimates are that will increase to 255 this year.  Egg consumption peaked in 2006 at just over 258 then slumped after that.

Egg Nutrition Center executive director Mitch Kanter says eggs are benefiting from the protein craze and the decline in cold breakfast cereal consumption.

Of all of the eggs produced in the U.S. in 2013:

  •             53 percent went to retail
  •             32 percent were further processed for food service and manufacturing
  •             10 percent went to foodservice use
  •             4.7 percent were exported

Iowa is the nation’s largest egg-producing state followed by Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

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