Overview

• Per-capita consumption is about 385 eggs in 2025, confirming eggs as the second most important food in the Argentine diet after red meat.
• Thirty percent of households increased egg intake in the past year, doubling the share reported in 2023.
• Shoppers are shifting purchases to verdulerías and to producer-run outlets, with more than 280 direct-sale points now in operation.
• CAPIA says 40% of consumers would buy 60-egg packs and the chamber is developing a larger, low-cost format to meet that demand.
• Annual output exceeds 18.2 billion eggs with 61–62 million laying hens, more than 30,000 direct jobs and exports to over 65 destinations, while SENASA and Entre Ríos police recently destroyed 36,000 undocumented eggs.