Consumers' reasons for not eating healthier in the U.S. in 2022

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Nils-Gerrit Wunsch,
Nov 21, 2022
According to multiple surveys from 2020 to 2021, the main reason given by respondents in the United States explaining why they do not eat healthier is that it is too expensive. Nearly 19 percent of respondents gave this explanation in the fourth quarter of 2021. During 2021, the share of respondents who gave this answer has increased by four percent. The share of survey respondents who stated that they think they do eat healthy decreased from 35 percent in the first quarter of 2020 to 30 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Consumers' reasons for not eating healthier in the United States in 2022, quarterly percentages

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Release date

January 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

January 1 2020 to December 31 2021

Number of respondents

584,141*

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Weighted.

Supplementary notes

* For all eight surveys.

Respondents were asked: "Which reason best explains why you don't eat healthier?"

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