The most expensive type of breakfast food in the United States is the frozen handheld breakfast item. These cost about 4.28 U.S. dollars per unit, on average. One of the more inexpensive breakfast foods are frozen bagels, which cost about 1.88 U.S. dollars on average.
Top Breakfast Foods
In terms of dollar sales, ready-to-eat cereal was the leading category of breakfast food. In 2018, sales of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal amounted to about 8.33 billion U.S. dollars in the United States. Bacon was another leading American breakfast food, with sales of nearly five billion U.S. dollars in that year. In 2017, General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios were the most popular name brand of ready-to-eat cereal in the United States, though private label cereal had significantly higher sales than any name brand.
Total U.S. supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries
and select club and dollar retail chains for the 52 weeks ending April 17, 2016.
Note: Does not include all breakfast subcategories.
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