The importance of pasta as part of a balanced diet

• Pasta is obviously one of the 10 most consumed foods
• 7 in 10 French people eat pasta at least once a week
• The French eat twice as much pasta as rice and buy it 12 times a year.
• The French consume 8.1 kg of pasta per year, against more than 25 kg for the Italians.
• The French favor spaghetti. Almost 1 in 4 people say they prefer this form (23%), Penne (14%), fusilli (13%), tagliatelle (13%) and farfalle (10%)
• 1 in 4 people say they have a favorite brand of pasta, and are loyal to it (26%).
• 75% of French people say they have never eaten gluten-free pasta.
• 36% say they consume it more than once a week
• 49% of 18-34 year olds eat pasta more than once a week
• Almost 16 packets of pasta are sold every second, or 488 million packs per year

Sources:
RealTime: study carried out from September 1 to 2, 2020 among 1,002 people representative of the national population aged 18 and over.
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