A survey conducted in 2020 revealed that 16 percent of the respondents from households without any children in the United Kingdom (UK) always checked the traffic lights system when buying food, compared to 13 percent of the respondents living with three children. A share of 34 percent of the respondents from households with four children or more stated they never looked at the traffic lights system of the food they were buying.
How often do you look at the traffic lights system when buying food?*
* The original survey question was phrased as follows: "How often do you look at the following information when buying food? --- Traffic lights system indicating how healthy the product is high/low in macro/micro nutrients"
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dunnhumby Beyond. (October 13, 2020). How often do you look at the traffic lights system when buying food?* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 04, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1173265/frequency-of-checking-the-traffic-lights-system-in-food-uk-by-number-of-kids/
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dunnhumby Beyond. (2020). How often do you look at the traffic lights system when buying food?*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 04, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1173265/frequency-of-checking-the-traffic-lights-system-in-food-uk-by-number-of-kids/
dunnhumby Beyond. "How Often Do You Look at The Traffic Lights System When Buying Food?*." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Oct 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1173265/frequency-of-checking-the-traffic-lights-system-in-food-uk-by-number-of-kids/
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