Among many other changes, the pandemic has caused a boom in snacking. But what exactly are we filling our faces with? UK supplement company Feel surveyed 3,000 Brits working from home, and the results were eye-opening.
Fruit was nowhere in the top ten, with under a fifth of British workers saying they chose fruit as a snack. The majority went for confectionery, and it’s safe to say McVitie’s has done well out of the pandemic.
Britain’s top 10 home working snacks
- McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives
- Cadbury Dairy Milk
- Pringles
- Haribo sweets
- Galaxy Smooth Milk
- Snack a Jacks
- Walkers Salt & Vinegar crisps
- Go Ahead! bars
- Müller yoghurt
- McVitie’s Hobnobs
The Snack a Jacks, Go Ahead! bars and Müller yoghurt are fairly healthy, at least. But who’s eating all the junk? The study revealed that Brummies are the worst offenders, with over 80% of respondents in Birmingham saying they’d mostly been snacking on junk food while working from home.
Top 10 biggest junk food zones
- Birmingham - 82%
- Manchester - 79%
- Cardiff - 72%
- Gloucester - 69%
- Devon - 65%
- Bristol - 59%
- Bournemouth - 51%
- London - 49%
- Hull - 45%
- Plymouth - 42%
This seems to be an odd blend of big cities and places you’d go for a seaside holiday–although it’s understandable that people in tourist resorts might be drowning their sorrows in Hobnobs.