Nine survey reveals Half of Aussies eat fast food once a week, with some even eating it daily - 9Kitchen.
With recent findings by the CSIRO's Healthy Diet Score survey confirming that nearly 80% of Australians are consuming junk food on a daily basis, a new online tool developed by the Australian Government scientific research hopes "to provide the community with a greater understanding of their discretionary food intake ...
Do you dine on fast food four times a month? If your answer is yes, then you're an average Australian. A new report on the nation's eating habits shows that Australians make 51.5 million visits to fast food restaurants every month.
money. Australians are buying takeaway food up to three times a week, despite cost of living pressures. New research has found Aussie consumers have turned to takeaway more since national inflation* rises. And we are eating more takeaway than people in the US, UK and France.
Most Americans eat fast food 1-3 times a week. ⅓ of Americans are eating fast food on any given day. People ages 20-39 years old eat the most fast food on any given day. Men consume more fast food than women.
According to a study by CEO World Magazine, the United States and the United Kingdom are the most fast-food-obsessed countries in the world. France and Sweden ranked third and fourth spots, followed by Austria, Mexico, and South Korea.
As Australians lead increasingly busy lifestyles, they are spending more on fast food and meals consumed outside the home. 3 Australians are estimated to make 51.5 million visits to fast food chains each month,5 and spend nearly 32% of their household food budget on eating out.
Australian snackers tend to be creatures of habit, with 70 per cent of adults saying they tend to snack around the same time each day. This number is consistent across generations. 60 per cent of Australians snack in the morning, 64 per cent in the afternoon and 50 per cent in the evening.
More than a quarter of adults are 'heavy' snackers
A much smaller proportion - just 11.5% of Australians - are considered Non-Snackers (they don't eat packaged snacks in an average week).
Australian Eating Habits
Australians tend to eat three meals a day: Breakfast – eaten in the morning is either light and cold (cereal, toast, coffee) or heavy and hot (bacon, eggs, sausages, fried tomato) Lunch – eaten around 12 – 2 pm is usually a light meal such as a sandwich, or salad.
As a rule of thumb, the north of Europe (where it is colder) tends to dine earlier and the lower you travel, the later you eat. Australians eat their meals earlier than usual, especially in the recent years so as to spen more time with family after dinner, as per reports.
Iceland was ranked as the BEST COUNTRY for food quality and diet diversification.
Unhealthy diets and obesity are the leading contributors to poor health in Australia. Less than 7% of people in Australia consume a healthy diet consistent with the Australian Dietary Guidelines.
Food Waste in Australia
Australian households account for the majority of food waste (2.46 million tonnes) 70% of the 7.6 million tonnes of food wasted in Australia every year is edible.
Australians prefer American fast food chains
The most popular were McDonald's, with 32 percent of respondents saying that it was their favorite, and KFC with 23 percent of respondents.
Despite our reputation as the “lucky country”, the issue of hunger exists in Australia but is largely unnoticed. The reality is that 3.6 million Australians (15%) have experienced food insecurity at least once in the last 12 months. Three in five of these individuals experience food insecurity at least once a month.
Nearly two thirds (65%) of Australians are skipping breakfast with as many as one in five (22%), or more than 3 million Aussies, skipping breakfast most days of the week.
“The latest Roy Morgan data shows over three-quarters of Australians aged 14+, 15.9 million, ate take away food from fast food outlets in an average four weeks during 2020, up from 13.3 million (63.7%) in 2019 before anyone had heard of COVID-19.
Sausage sizzle
Staple of the family barbecue, the voting booth, the local footy field and the Bunnings carpark, the humble snag sanga is undoubtedly Australia's most iconic lunchtime snack.
A Commbank Signals' report in March found that the average Aussie eats out around four times a month and spends $70 a week at cafes, takeaway shops and restaurants.
KFC is one of the largest restaurant systems in Australia, serving around 2 million customers a week. 3. KFC Australia is committed to providing customers with the information they and their families need to make informed decisions about food choices.
In summary, 77.2% of adult participants reported eating breakfast on five or more days a week, 6.3% on three to four days, 7.5% on one or two days, and 8.5% rarely or never. Overall, nearly a quarter of adult Australians reported regularly missing breakfast at least three days of the week.
The U.S. is the unhealthiest country globally because of its high obesity rate and the heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses that go along with it. America has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world—and it's not just adults who are getting heavier and heavier: childhood obesity is also a problem.