Belgium with 12g/day ? I wonder whom they asked, seagulls?! People here swear by bread; one can literally see types of sandwiches (broodjes) left and right during lunch time.
Beatboxin_dawg on
Sorry, we love our koffiekoeken too much.
Direct_Programmer181 on
Bread for the slave
Iranon79 on
…and they didn’t even count beer.
Sotyka94 on
I’m sure there are other countries with higher intake, but I’m highly sceptical that an average German eats 130 TIMES more bread/pasta/rice… than we in Hungary.
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Source https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/health-promotion-knowledge-gateway/whole-grain-5_en
im pretty sure the grain includes beer
So… how’s the pooping in Hungary?
Would be better as a % of all grain and not absolute values…
Vollkornbrot 💪💪💪
Is this why Germans are tall and huge
Bread for breakfast, bread for dinner.
Welcome to Germany:D
I’m doing some heavy lífting here. I eat 100-120g/day for breakfast (oats if curious) while average is 12g.
That loose definition of “whole grain”…
Furthermore, the data looks so skewed.
This isn’t Europe, just the EU
Grain not good.
As a Dane i have to say I’m embarrassed. I thought we would be number 1
Genuinely that’s not too bad.
We just got new national diet recommendations. According to those, it’s advised to consume a minimum of 90g of whole grain food a day.
That’s honestly not bad considering that a portion of the population will always live off of freezer fries or have some kind of carnivore diet.
This is super interesting. I dig into it a bit and found out something that could be correlated: Hungary and Croatia have the highest standardized death rate for colorectal cancer among EU countries. Also, Croatia follows in the colorrectal cancer rank,
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Causes_of_death_%E2%80%93_malignant_neoplasms_of_colon,_rectosigmoid_junction,_rectum,_anus_and_anal_canal,_residents,_2021_Health2024.png
Edit: added Croatia!
EU not europe
Belgium with 12g/day ? I wonder whom they asked, seagulls?! People here swear by bread; one can literally see types of sandwiches (broodjes) left and right during lunch time.
Sorry, we love our koffiekoeken too much.
Bread for the slave
…and they didn’t even count beer.
I’m sure there are other countries with higher intake, but I’m highly sceptical that an average German eats 130 TIMES more bread/pasta/rice… than we in Hungary.
Especially that cereals are the biggest food group we intake: [https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/jov/en/jov0051.html](https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/jov/en/jov0051.html)