10 ways the UK's eating habits have changed

[maureenho]

10 ways the UK's eating habits have changed
By Jon Kelly & Claire Bates BBC News Magazine

Figures charting the UK's changing food-buying patterns since 1974 have been released. What do they tell us about the nation?

In with chips, fresh fruit and dried pasta. Out with white bread, tinned peas and meat paste. That's the story of the modern British dinner table.

Data from 150,000 households who took part in the survey of their food and drink habits from 1974-2000 have been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

It comes from the National Food Survey, which in 1940 began asking households to fill out diaries of their weekly food and drink purchases.

Together with studies that replaced it from 2000, the survey data offers a fascinating snapshot of the nation's shifting norms of dining and imbibing. So what does it reveal?
Less white bread, less full-fat milk

Purchases of white bread have dropped 75% since 1974, according to the survey, while those of brown and wholemeal bread have risen by 85%. Skimmed milk (referring both to skimmed and semi-skimmed) overtook whole-fat milk in the 1990s and British households now drink four times as much.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35595530

[wendy]

Most interesting.

[annie]

Yes, interesting how trends change

[Rosalind]

tha22222 that was interesting.