ANSWER: AT LEAST 3 PER DAY, PROBABLY MORE. Eggs and Cholesterol – How Many Eggs Can You Safely Eat? “A single medium sized egg contains 186 mg of cholesterol, which is 62% of the recommended daily intake. People believed that if you ate cholesterol, that it would raise cholesterol in the blood and contribute to heart disease. But it turns out that it isn’t that simple. The more you eat of cholesterol, the less your body produces instead.”