A frozen food company surveyed Americans to find out their favourite and least favourite vegetables but discovered something shocking — a staggering one quarter of respondents had never even eaten one.
The survey of 2000 adults, conducted by research firm OnePoll in May on behalf of Dr. Praeger’s, found that even among those who do eat them, only one third (36 per cent) of their meals actually included a vegetable.
Seventy-two per cent of respondents said they wanted to eat more vegetables and 67 per cent said they felt guilty when they failed to eat vegies with their meal. So what’s holding them back?
One in four Americans said both that vegetables were simply “too expensive” and that “they always rot before I get a chance to eat them”, 24 per cent said they didn’t have convenient access to buying them, 22 per cent said they took too much time to prepare and 19 per cent said they didn’t know how to cook them properly.
“Most of us already know they should be eating more vegetables,” Dr. Praeger’s chief executive Larry Praeger said in a statement. “While more and more people are adopting plant-based diets, there’s still a long way to go toward reaching recommended consumption levels.”
The survey was conducted to promote the company’s Veggie Tracker website.
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