Daily portions of fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK 2001-2015

This statistic illustrates the average daily portions of fruit and vegetables consumed per person in the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2015, by household income quintile. In 2015, low income households within the lowest ten percent consumed an average of 3.3 portions of fruit and vegetables a day compared to the recommended benchmark of 5 portions a day.

Average daily portions of fruit and vegetables consumed per person in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2001/02 to 2015, by household income quintile

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Release date

April 2017

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2001/02 to 2015

Supplementary notes

The data provided relates to the '5 a day' benchmark (with no allowance for waste), a national guideline for the amount of fruit and vegetables people should aim to consume per day.
This statistic using original data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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