French eating less bread

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Apr 28th 2006 @ 8:38AM

The people of France are eating less bread than they did in decades past, according to a recent Reuters story. At the turn of the century, the average French person consumed a little more than a pound of bread per day. That figure is now down to a little over five ounces of bread per day, less than the average bread consumption for people from Germany and Italy. Still, the decline seems to have steadied, with some French bakeries bolstering their sales with loaves made of more traditional ingredients. Clotilde over at Chocolate and Zucchini posted about these "baguettes de tradition" a few weeks ago.

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4-28-2006 @10:33AM Razib Ahmed said... Well , this is not exactly a good news for the french health. Eating less bread perhaps means that the french are consuming more meat than before. i just wish that they could eat more rice and fish like the Asians.
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4-28-2006 @7:20PM Cindy said... It would be interesting to look at the sell of breadmakers. It seems than more and more french people are buying them and therefore making their own bread which results in buying less bread from bakery. I'm not sure the French eat less bread than they used to and certainely not more meat. Well, that's just my point of view.
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