Are You Worried About Food Safety?
Most U.S. adults consider their diet to be generally healthy and report paying close attention to nutritional information on food labels, especially sugar and calories. Slightly fewer, but still a majority, say they pay attention to food warnings and nutritional recommendations.
Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults, unchanged from last year, trust that the food available in grocery stores is safe to eat. However, following consecutive declines in the past two measures, a new low of 53% of Americans express confidence in the federal government’s regulation of food safety. The latest findings are from Gallup’s July 7-21 Consumption Habits poll.
Americans Continue to Broadly Report Having a Healthy Diet: Overall, 24% of U.S. adults describe their diet as being “very healthy,” while 60% say it is “somewhat healthy.” The combined 84% of Americans who report that their diet is at least somewhat healthy has been generally stable since Gallup first asked the question in 2001.
Excerpted from Gallup
