Brits scoffed record-breaking 8 billion eggs in past year as lockdown baking boom sent sales soaring

BRITS scoffed a record-breaking eight billion eggs in the past year as the lockdown baking boom sent sales soaring.

Shoppers splurged nearly £1.2billion on the protein-packed favourite in 2020 — a leap of more than a quarter from £950million the year before.


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Brits scoffed record-breaking 8 billion eggs in past year as lockdown baking boom sent sales soaring
Brits scoffed a record-breaking 8billion eggs in the past year as the lockdown baking boom sent sales soaring

They bought 7.9 billion eggs in the 12 months ending in January, market research company Kantar said.

The total was up by a fifth from 6.6billion sold in 2019 and the highest on record.

Former Tory MP Edwina Currie — who quit as Margaret Thatcher’s health minister after claiming most British eggs were infected by salmonella — hailed the boom.

She said: “British eggs with the Lion stamp are probably the safest in the world.


Brits scoffed record-breaking 8 billion eggs in past year as lockdown baking boom sent sales soaring
Former Tory MP Edwina Currie hailed the boom and said: ‘British eggs with the Lion stamp are probably the safest in the world’

“It is due to a lot of hard work by British farmers and scientists. So eat, cook, enjoy.”

Lockdown turned the UK into a nation of baking fanatics, experts said.

Michelle Coggin, an insight director at Kantar, added: “It was sweet baked treats that kept us going — such as biscuits, cakes and pastries.”


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