Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Matt Lyons. On today's

program, what is happening to egg prices in the US? The average price for a dozen eggs reached

$6.23 in March, more than triple the long-term average average American eats $2.00. Given the

average American eats 280 eggs every year, it's hit consumers hard.

I have to say, I'm not buying them at the supermarket often, but it is becoming something that I take into consideration more than I have in the past when I'm going out to lunch.

The price rise comes at a time when breakfast is booming for the U.S. restaurant industry

with omelets, scrambles, and hua vos rancheros on more and more menus across the country.

We go through about six or seven cases of eggs a week, so with the increase in prices,

we're looking at an increase of about $14 to $1,600 a week in expenses just to pie eggs.

However, are things starting to improve for businesses and shoppers?

Last week, US President Donald Trump claimed wholesale egg prices had started to go down,

although it seems that reduction hasn't yet trickled down to stores.

We'll be finding out why the price of eggs in particular has risen so quickly.

And, given the fluctuating

price, do we need to look for an alternative? We produce eggs or not eggs. We found a bean

called the mung bean that has a protein in it that actually scrambles like a chicken egg.

What's going on with egg prices in the US? That's coming up on today's Business Daily.

It's been hitting the headlines for months and was a big talking point on the US election campaign trail,

with now President Donald Trump vowing to solve it when he got into office.

Speaking last week, he claimed he'd already made an impact on egg prices.

Eggs have gone down 25% in the last couple of weeks.

We inherited that problem, eggs.

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