Banana is most wasted food

Published: 6:30AM GMT 02 March 2010

Photo: DAN JONES

Fruit, salad and vegetables are the majority squandered equipment in the weekly selling basket with the banana in tip place, closely followed by uninformed milk, according to the ultimate research.

People vital in cities in all rubbish the majority food but the misfortune culprits are city-dwelling singular men, elderly in between twenty-five and 35, who rubbish food value an normal of �17.43 a month, the interpretation found.

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The countrywide consult by commercial operation comprehension company, Retail Active, says the South East of England has the tip food rubbish tally, second is the North West and the area with the slightest wastage is Scotland.

It says a family of 4 throws afar an normal of �15.70 value of food each month but people elderly over 57 are the slightest wasteful, throwing afar an normal of only �3.36 per month.

Retail Actives handling director, Julian Chamberlain said: The volume of food we rubbish is a critical issue. Our consult helps to pinpoint who are the misfortune offenders, the majority demure and the majority squandered items. The bad old banana came top.

Fresh beef and uneaten rebuilt food are additionally high on the wastage list. Tinned food is the slightest wasted. We used the immeasurable database to control a check of a deputy representation of 2000 people and it gives us a small erotically appealing insights.

Nearly 3 buliding of the responders pronounced they believed their food rubbish had small or no effect for the environment. Forty per cent essentially think food rubbish is great for the economy since it keeps prolongation moving. Seventy 7 per cent pronounced they do not cruise the stroke on the tellurian sourroundings when shopping food.

The main reasons for food rubbish were identified as bad planning, bustling lifestyles, bad habits, indolence and as well large apportionment sizes for both ready to eat and rebuilt food.

Only 6 per cent of the purchasers polled checked sell-by dates but of those that did, the immeasurable majority, 92 per cent, chose food from the back of the shelf to get limit food freshness.

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