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    Welche europäischen Länder kaufen die meisten hochverarbeiteten Lebensmittel?

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    1. vladgrinch on

      Ultra-processed foods are industrial products made using additives, preservatives and ingredients rarely used in home cooking. The category includes things like soft drinks, packaged snacks, instant noodles, mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals and many ready meals.

    2. gofatwya on

      Man, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy, it’s a good thing y’all were near the bottom of this list, or I was gonna have to come over there and smack you up! /s

    6. Big-Today6819 on

      Is there a number for Denmark? It’s quite sad to see us eating hugely amounts of ultra processed food in Europa.

    7. IWillDevourYourToes on

      English people are smart people. Ultra processed food is carefully designed and made for human consumption. Organic is just something found on the ground

    12. Winslow_99 on

      I can confirm, people give nuggets to the kindergarten kids in Ireland 😭

    13. CipherWeaver on

      This rings very true in my experience in France. Yes, they’re blessed with incredible geography, but the rules around their boulangeries means they have access to abundant and amazing fresh baked goods, and their produce was all far better quality than anything I find in the grocery store in Canada. It just makes me realize that the food supply where I’m from is focused on size and ability to ship, not flavour or quality. Don’t even get me started on how awful Canadian butter has become.

    15. Fe_jk on

      Ultra processed isnt necessarily bad. Some of it is, but far from everything. A lot is still healthier than takeout.

      It feels like the anti ultra-processed agenda is mostly to shame poor people, rather than solving any real issues.

    19. Upset_Guarantee_9943 on

      Are there any people living in France who could elaborate on its percentage? When I go to any French supermarket, it seems to have the same percentage of processed foods as a Belgian supermarket, possibly even displaying more deserts, sugared yogurts and other sweet dairy products, potato chips in a variety of (im)possible flavors and dozens of soft drinks?

    20. No-Emu-4359 on

      it’s shocking how certain events get overlooked, thanks for bringing attention to this

    21. Valeand on

      Why not color the countries themselves? And use a proper sequential color scale instead if these giant bins.

    23. TheSchmeeble1 on

      I’m not convinced this is a useful graphic

      Edit: It was made c8 years ago for a Guardian article, which notes:

      „the figures are not directly comparable, extracted from national surveys carried out differently and from different years, [however] the trend is clear.“

      https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-processed-products-now-half-of-all-uk-family-food-purchases

      So getting on for 10 years on since this was produced we would expect to see an impact on public health via obseity numbers scaling with the amount of UPFs, which is not the case

      For instance Croatia, Greece, Slovakia and Hungary have a higher proportion of obese people than the UK does despite have less than half the amount of UPFs?

      Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ireland also have a greater proportion of obesity than the UK despite having lower UPFs?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate

      This suggests to me that the devil is in the detail of the wording of the definition of UPFs

    30. cousinofthedog on

      There’s surely a geography angle here. Big difference from North to South.

    32. Pure-Rose-Rainbow on

      I wa sin Italy a few months ago and they literally have preecooked vegetables like pumpkin and artichokes avaible in Lidl, no wonder they have such a low rate of buying ultra processed food, if something more healthy and less time consuming is available. Wish my country would have it too, that way less people would buy the ultra processed pre made food

    33. ATXFC_Bro on

      Anyone know where the US is at on this? Would love to see a by state breakdown.

    34. vainerlures on

      more interesting is which country is growing their processed food consumption fastest.

    35. MontEcola on

      This does a lot to explain the Mediterranean diet. Food is not ultra processed, with one exception. Another factor, IMO, is that people in the south of Europe also walk to the markets regularly and talk to people along the way. The little bit of exercise and move movement, along with the social aspect of seeing your people ever day is also beneficial to a long and healthy life.

    38. Bytewave on

      Huh, TIL. I knew this about the UK but I thought the Belgians ate like the French, that Germans were only slightly worse, and that the Poles would be in the eastern European median.

      Clearly, I needed an update on my food-cultural stereotypes.

    41. JacKellar on

      Europe is indeed divided between nations with good cuisine and nations with high HDI

    42. Exotic_Impression_19 on

      Why not include the most important country in the world? The Netherlands

    43. Formal_Plum_2285 on

      We need to get back to 10% tops. It’s getting out of hand and soon we are as fat as Americans.

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