Consumption in the Last Decade: 30% Less Fresh Fruit and More Prepared Dishes

Fresh fruit consumption in the last decade has fallen around 30%, dropping from 90.2 kilos per capita in 2016 to 64.4 kilos per person in 2025, while prepared dishes gain ground in home eating that maintains habits such as rice, pasta, and legume intake. The arrival of teleworking, the rise of new diets, and the evolution of food prices, with a 2.9% increase in the last moving year (until March 2025), has caused a readjustment in Spanish shopping baskets. But amid these changes, which foods have been benefited?, and which the least?, are there products that maintain their consumption without variations compared to ten years ago? Fresh fruits lead the list of items that have registered the most abrupt variation in these last ten years, with a total decrease of 25.8 kilos per capita, from 90.2 kilos, according to the latest data. The figures, extracted from the Food Consumption Panel in Spain prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food (MAPA), also show a decline in ...