Source record
Family Food: UK household purchases
(2024). Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Key findings
- Household purchases of red meat per person have fallen over the past decade, while poultry purchases have risen.
Record
- Source type
- Government Statistics
- Study type
- Cross Sectional
- Topics
- Climate & emissions, Scale
- Geography
- United Kingdom
- Population
- A rolling sample of United Kingdom households
- Funding & conflicts
- United Kingdom government statistics.
- Source quality
- Moderate evidenceOfficial long-running series with a consistent method, but purchases are a proxy for intake.
Limitations
- Measures what households buy, not what individuals eat, and excludes much food eaten out of the home.
- A trend in purchases can reflect price and substitution as much as intention.
Statistics we use from this source
- 220g per person per weekRed meat bought per person each week
- 196g per person per weekRed meat bought per person each week
- 174g per person per weekRed meat bought per person each week