Brits are the world’s largest biccy eaters – scoffing three a day
Brits eat extra biscuits than anyplace else on earth, a research has revealed.
The common Brit munches on three biccies aday, which works out at 204m-a-day throughout the UK’s 68m inhabitants.
Over the course of a yr, that works out at 1,095 biscuits every, weighing an astonishing 8.5kg.
Taken throughout the UK as an entire, that works out at us scoffing 74 billion biccies-a-year, a whopping 578 million kilos.
That’s the equal to simply over 96,000 grownup male elephants, which may get to round 6,000kg per jumbo.
The common Brit munches on three biscuits a day, which works out at 204m-a-day throughout the UK’s 68m inhabitants
The UK as an entire scoffs 74 billion biscuits, a whopping 578 million kilos
We spend a whopping £588m-a-year on biscuits, and spending has been hovering round 5%-a-year over the previous three years.
By comparability, the common American wolfs down 8kg of biscuits-a-year, in comparison with the French, who munch on round 5kg of biccies every per yr.
The world biscuit league, in kilos eaten per yr, is as follows;
1 – UK – 8.5kg
2 – USA – 8kg
3 – Italy – 7.5kg
4 – Germany – 7kg
5 – Japan – 7kg
6 – France – 5kg
7 – Russia – 4.5kg
8 – Sweden – 2.5kg
9 – India – 2kg
10 – China – 1.5kg
Food historian Lizzie Collingham – writer of The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence – mentioned this week: ‘No different nation buys and eats extra biscuits.
‘They’re as embedded in our meals tradition as fish and chips or the Sunday roast.’
She mentioned the Industrial Revolution, which kicked off in 1760, meant Britain went into overdrive making biscuits – with the primary biccie manufacturing facility, run by Huntley & Palmers, opening in Reading in 1846.
She mentioned: ‘Once the Industrial Revolution launched mass manufacturing, Britain took the essential biscuit recipe and ran with it.’
Dr Saira Hameed, a advisor in endocrinology and diabetes at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, mentioned biccies gave us a ‘dopamine excessive’ – which is even stronger if we dunk them.
She mentioned: ‘Dunking a biscuit softens up the feel, making the biscuit actually soften within the mouth.
‘The sugar hits the style receptors and will get into the bloodstream and thus that ‘pleasure space’ sooner.
‘They’re designed by meals engineers to have an ideal bliss level – a super ratio of sugar, salt and fats that feels wonderful and retains us coming again for extra.’, she informed the Features complement in The Daily Telegraph this week.
