London and Yorkshire on the Humber spend the lowest amount on sweet treats while most on fruits, vegetables and carbs while Northern Ireland is the most sugar-obsessed region in the UK, said a recent study which ranked North-East and the West Midlands as the UK’s second-biggest sugar lovers.
As per a study conducted by commercial kitchen experts Maxima Kitchen Equipment, using recent data from the Office of National Statistics on household spending between 2018 and 2020, residents of Northern Ireland devote the biggest proportion of their food shop to sweet treats.
Scotland, the North-East and the West Midlands are the UK’s second most sweet-obsessed regions, said the study, adding that shoppers here spend 15 per cent more on sweet drinks, chocolate, ice-cream and other confectionery than shoppers in London and Yorkshire, who in turn were found to be least interested in such stuff.
London emerged as the area which devotes the biggest proportion of its weekly shop to fruit and vegetables. London households spend 37.5 per cent more on fruit and vegetables than households in Northern Ireland, where residents spend the smallest amount of their weekly shopping budget on fruit and veg, said the study.
London is also king of carbs, spending more of its food budget (almost 10 per cent) on items such as bread, pasta and rice than any other UK area.
Scotland is the biggest spender when it comes to alcohol and tobacco, with residents devoting over a fifth of their weekly food budget to the products – a full 50 per cent more than London, the region which buys the least alcohol and cigarettes, as per the study.
In terms of meat consumption, Northern Ireland again takes the cake as the region which spends the most of its shopping budget on meat in the whole of the UK with households in the region spending 25 per cent more on meat than households in London and Yorkshire, which spend the least on meat overall.
