The Package service from X5 conducted a survey and found out how Russians feel about fast food and unhealthy snacks, what role they play in the respondents’ diet, and what part of the food budget is spent on buying unhealthy food.
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Thus, the vast majority of Russians noted that they love fast food (88%). 43% of respondents use it several times a month, almost the same number (40%) – several times a week, every tenth (9%) – daily, and almost the same number of respondents (8%) – several times a year.
Among the reasons for choosing unhealthy food, taste is the leading one – 89% of Russians believe that this is what makes them eat fast food. The second most popular reason is lack of time to cook or eat a full meal; more than a third of respondents (36%) note this option. Only 15% of respondents lack the desire to prepare healthy food on their own, a little less often; Russians also note the low cost compared to a full meal as a reason.
It’s interesting that despite Russians’ preferences for such food, a third of the country’s residents still consider the presence of fast food in their diet to be a problem, but cannot deny themselves the pleasure. Despite the craving for this type of food, people still recognize this as a problem. A fifth of respondents also consider fast food a bad habit, but do not see the point in getting rid of it. An important fact is that every fifth person deliberately tries to remove or minimize the amount of fast food in their diet. Thus, giving preference to healthy foods. And more than a quarter (27%) do not consider eating such food a problem.
Russians' favorite unhealthy snacks look like this: in first place are chips and crackers, in second are chocolate bars, in third are cookies, followed by chewing marmalade and popcorn. And the most popular unhealthy dishes were pizza, followed by burger, shawarma, French fries, chicken, breaded meat or fish (nuggets).
At the same time, half of respondents (53%) claim that fast food makes up only a tenth of their diet. And a third of respondents (35%) estimate the volume of fast food as a quarter of the entire diet. The same dynamics can be seen in the share of the budget for food, which is allocated specifically to junk food.
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