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Cooking and eating
2 January 2024
Veganuary led to a rise in retail sales of meat alternatives but the sector’s growth has begun to decelerate, with market share remaining small.
4 February 2022
February is a ‘rare’ month for steak, with people 14 times more likely to indulge in a tender cut than at any other time of the year.
27 January 2022
The latest results of our AHDB/Blue Marble study show that consumer perceptions of agriculture remain very positive with almost two thirds (63%) feeling very or somewhat positive towards British agriculture.
1 December 2021
Processed red meat accounts for 39% of value sales and 96% of households bought a processed meat product in the last year.
18 January 2022
During the first lockdown we saw a baking boom. With the return to a more normal way of life home baking and pre-packed flour sales have declined over the last year.
16 November 2021
Volumes of continental meats are up 12% year on year and up 30% on the same period in 2019.
27 January 2022
With a later than usual start to the hot summer weather, combined with greater option to eat out, the number of barbecues during 2021 declined versus 2020, but did this affect the sales of red meat and dairy?
24 April 2024
In the UK, 70% of food waste post-farm gate came from households, the equivalent of over £14 billion worth of food, and 20 million tonnes of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions a year (WRAP, August 2021).
15 October 2021
Successive lockdowns during 2020/21 brought about a resurgence in people using milkmen to get their milk delivered. According to Kantar, the number of customers rose to a peak of 670,000 in July 2020 from a low point of 503,000 pre-pandemic.
1 October 2021
After the tumult of 2020, retail sales of the meat, fish and poultry (MFP) category are now beginning to settle back to a more ‘normal’ pattern.