Stewart et al., 2021

#High_Income_Countries/UK #Meat/meat_consumption

Stewart, C., Piernas, C., Cook, B., & Jebb, S. A. (2021). Trends in UK meat consumption: analysis of data from years 1–11 (2008–09 to 2018–19) of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(10), e699-e708.

Using 4 day food diary data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) 2018/19
By a team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (University of Oxford)

Results

Between 2008/09 and 2018/19:

Average daily meat consumption in the UK decreased by approximately 17.4g per person (from 103.7g to 86.3g)
This can be broken down into:
A reduction of 13.7g of red meat (from 37.4g to 23.7g)
A reduction of 7.0g of processed meat (from 33.8g to 26.8g)
An increase of 3.2g of white meat (from 32.5g to 35.7g).

(37.4-23.7)/37.4
(35.7-32.5)/32.5

The two middle birth-year groups (people born in 1960–79 and 1980–99) and White individuals were the highest meat consumers. Meat intake increased over time among people born after 1999, was unchanged among Asian and Asian British populations, and decreased in all other population subgroups. We found no difference in intake with gender or household income.

Own calculations from this data

What percentage of meat eaten by Brits is processed?

This means that as of 2019 processed meat makes up 31.1% of British non-fish meat consumption

26.8/(26.8+23.7+35.7) %

What percentage of white and red meat do brits eat is processed?

We might naively estimate that because 60% of non-processed meat Brits eat is white meat, that 60% of processed meat is also likely white meat. In reality more processed meat is likely to be red meat: burgers, sausages, ham and mince compared to chicken nuggets. So let's assume its around 50%

35.7/(23.7+35.7) % # percentage of non processed meat that is white meat

(26.8*0.5)+23.7 # amount of red meat (processed and unprocessed)
(26.8*0.5)+35.7 # amount of white meat (processed and unprocessed)
(26.8*0.5)/((26.8*0.5)+23.7) % # Percentage of all red meat that is processed
(26.8*0.5)/((26.8*0.5)+35.7) % # Percentage of all white meat that is processed