| 1 | One in every four British households no longer has a table that everyone can eat around |
| 57 | The percentage of British men who have little interest in food |
| 38 | The percentage of British women who have little interest in food |
| 1 | One out of every three Britons say they do not eat vegetables because they require too much effort to prepare |
| 50 | The percentage of Britons who really enjoy eating |
| 2003 | The year by which Britain ate more ready meals than the rest of Europe put together |
| 40 | The percentage of patients entering and leaving British hospitals in 2004 with malnutrition. The equivalent figure in British nursing homes is 60 per cent |
| 29 | The number of unique British products with protected status in the EU in 2005. Italy had 149, France had 143, Portugal 93, Spain 91, Greece 84 |
| 40 | The percentage of food bought in Britain, but never eaten |
| 35 | The average amount in pence spent on food ingredients for a primary school meal in 2003. This is half what is spent on lunch for residents in HM Prisons and a quarter of the sum allocated to feeding an army dog |
| 48 | The percentage of Britons who say they are fed up being told what to eat |
| 20 | The percentage of British viewers who say that TV food programmes encourage them to cook |
| 4 | Only four out of ten Britons enjoy eating meals with their children |
| 69 | The percentage of Britons who are still confused about which foods are healthy |
| 1 | One out of every two meals eaten in Britain is now eaten alone |
| 63 | The percentage of the food eaten by Britons in 2004 that was home-produced, down from 75 per cent in 1994 |
| 1 | Only one in five Britons will go out of their way to buy British food if it means paying more for it |
| 50 | The percentage of all British shoppers who say that they do not care where their food comes from |
| 2020 | The year by which at least a third of all British adults, one fifth of British boys and one third of British girls will be obese, if current trends continue |
| 51 | Britain eats more than half of all the crisps and savoury snacks eaten in Europe |
