How Italians eat

Tell me how you eat and I'll tell you who you are. And how do Italians eat? The first report Coldiretti / Censis takes a photo on the Italian dietary habits and it shows that almost 37% (4 of 10 Italians) declared himself "frustrated at the table because he wants to eat healthier." The percentage rises to 40.5% among 30-44-year-old persons, over 40% among women and over 43% in households. And what are the main information sources on food? Someone follows the television programs and those who choose to learn through the internet (51.1%) or reading newspapers, weeklies and periodicals (34%), then talk to parents and friends (25.5%) and 25.6% turns to merchants and store personnel. Italians like to combine food and food quality: among those who say they regularly buy DOP and IGP certified products, not far from one third buys regularly fast food and among those who regularly buy organic produce, some three quarters also buy frozen ones. Again according to Coldiretti / Censis, two out of three Italians who do not give room to snack between lunch and dinner: 62.3% do so in the morning, afternoon 63.8% and 52.2% both morning and afternoon. To make the snacks are mostly women, younger, single, residents in the South and islands. Fruit, yogurt, crackers and, in the morning, even croissants, pastries and cakes are foods that make up more snacks. There are about 2.1 million Italians who claim to eat always pasta, at lunch and dinner seven days a week from Monday to Sunday; more than 17 million are fans of bread, 14.7 million those who always eat vegetables, 20.3 million Italians eat fresh fruit, 500thousand meat and 820thousand dessert. Furthermore, over 80% of Italians eat at least once a week outside the home and to do so to a greater extent are men, young people (93%) and residents in the North-East (88.3%).

Source and further information: Coldiretti