Vegetable consumption per capita in North America (different color scale)
Source:
https://landgeist.com/2021/10/15/vegetable-consumption-in-europe/
https://landgeist.com/2023/10/31/vegetable-consumption-in-north-america/
Is it still healthy when you cook the vegetables in bacon fat, cover them in cheese, deep fry them, then cover them in cheese and bacon again?
Now that I’ve read the article… Um… There is a great lack of source data which leads me to believe they’ve basically added up how many kilos of vegetables a country produces/imports and divided by estimate populous. In other words, with no evidence to the contrary, they’re including vegetables used in manufacturing/production of non food goods. Think of all the corn “consumed” by making biodiesel.
Sure they take the time to include a broken link where they define vegetable, but they need to also define consume. (See the biodiesel example)
Worth noting that potatoes are not included.
What the fuck
Crazy. I figured the reason Belgians are an outlier from their neighbours is due to their fried potato addiction. So it’s not that. Crazy
Named Turkey. Eats veggies. Hmmm…
In Turkey, tobacco counts as a vegetable.
Damn, us norwegians didn’t eat our veggies growing up
Shouldn’t have adjusted the scale for the North American graphic.
Serbia’s meat culture vs the more veggie-leaning ones around it lol
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Half of Europe’s vegetable supply comes from southern Spain you plonker
Where were you looking, the fuckin butcher’s? 😂
Edit - OP edited his comment to add “in restaurants” without marking it as such
Perhaps he was on the east coast where every restaurant’s biggest seller is the Full English Breakfast. We’ll never know
Don’t know about the methodology, but this interestingly contradicts what “health food” culture would have you believe, esp. USA vs. Western Europe, and the relative place of countries like France.
In general, poorer and less connected to global economy means more vegetables? More affluent people people can’t help the convenience of other foods? The other variable would be agriculture, and depth of living in capitalist economy including the older generations (which excludes Eastern Europe). I suspect in some places relatively “silent” and unpublicized demographics, like older people in the east, can skew the stats. I wonder who eats vegetables in the US (disclaimer, never been there) and what comes to mind is poor people outside metropolitan areas.
this interestingly contradicts what “health food” culture would have you believe
How?
That Europeans, specifically those around the Mediterranean Sea, are healthier than Americans because of a greater degree of vegetal nutrition. Like any complex system, there are more factors involved, I’d wager.
Are we counting corn in this? The link to their list of veggies 404s.
Because the numbers for the US would make much more sense. But yes, it’s certainly more complex than that. Not all veggies are created equal, and if the proteins and fats are coming from different sources that’ll be big too.
Whether we’re counting potatoes could also be a big factor (especially for eastern europe eating more veggies than western)
Corn is not a vegetable though. It’s a grain.
I agree, that’s why I wanted to check.
