Veg Facts 2021
Veg Facts 2021 follows on from 2020 and 2016’s Veg Facts reports, and looks once again at how much veg the UK is eating, exploring the headwinds and tailwinds we’ve seen over the intervening years that may both help and hinder future progress and pointing to potential solutions for tackling the challenge
Increasing vegetable intake so that everyone gets 5-A-Day (with the extra consumption coming from veg) could contribute eight additional months to the UK's average life expectancy and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 82%
We all know vegetables are good for us
But we’re still not eating enough of them. Back in 2016 we published our very first Veg Facts report, a fact file outlining the scale of the problem and making the case for change. Veg Facts 2016 also marked the start of Peas Please, a UK-wide initiative working to bring people, places, and organisations together to overcome the many food system barriers to vegetable consumption.
Since then, many of you have joined us in our mission to make it easier for everyone in the UK to eat more veg, and together we’ve achieved a great deal. But we still have a long way to go before the UK becomes a truly veg-eating nation.
Veg Facts 2021 follows on from 2020’s Veg Facts: in brief and looks once again at how much veg the UK is eating, exploring the headwinds and tailwinds we’ve seen over the intervening five years that may both help and hinder future progress, and pointing to potential solutions for tackling the challenge.
