The Pew Research Center did this to perceive the food and priorities of the Americans. For this analysis, we interviewed 5,123 American adults from February 24 to March 2, 2025.
All those who participated in the survey are members of the American Trends panel (ATP) of the center, an organization of other people recruited through the national and random sampling of the residential addresses that agreed to carry out surveys regularly. This type of recruitment provides almost all American adults with the possibility of selection. The interviews were conducted online or by phone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the population of American adults through sex, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, schooling and other categories. Get more information about the ATP methodology.
Here are the questions used for this analysis, the top line, and the survey method.
While food costs have been reduced, healthy dinner has more complicated for many Americans. An overwhelming majority (90%) of adults says that healthy foods have more dear in recent years.
And 69% say that those worth increasing make them more difficult to eat to eat healthy. These are among the effects of a survey of the PEW Research Center carried out from February 24 to March 2, 2025, between 5,123 American adults.
Beyond the surprise of supermarket stickers, the possible characteristics of Americans also take their position in the context of several other dynamics: greater degrees of obesity, proliferation of food delivery characteristics and wave of trends and food recommendations on social networks. We have conducted this survey to perceive the priorities and habit of American adults around food and food in physical condition. This exam is in our past paintings by examining American attitudes and reports with emerging physical aptitude problems.
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Bad Regimes is an engine of primary situations of public aptitude that requires in the United States, such as the obesity and disease of the center. And Nutrition Mavens says that many American adults have a bad diet.
When asked how healthy their own nutrition was, American adults in a large component give intermediate criticism. About six out of ten say that, in general, its nutrition is healthy. A much smaller component indicates that its nutrition is incredibly or very healthy (21%). And one in five says that its nutrition is not too healthy or not in intelligent health.
Older, superior and very knowledgeable adults are more likely to say that they have healthy nutrition than more young Americans, low income and less knowledgeable.
In particular, Republicans and Democrats are offering reviews on the aptitude of their own nutrition, as well as points that give their food options more widely. Food and nutrition have stood out in the existing presidential administration, the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Priority of the opposite combat to obesity and paintings to ban safe food colors.
The effects of additional demographic characteristics occur in the appendix.
Loaded hours, tight budgets, personal flavors of flavor and physical disorders can play a role in food resolutions. This survey asked American adults for the importance of the 4 considerations when food is a resolution to obtain: taste, cost, physical status and convenience.
Most American adults say that the 4 facets are at least important. But the way food has the taste of the list through a significant margin with respect to what Americans feel that it is incredibly or very important. A giant majority (83%) says that the taste is very important.
The vast majority of Americans through sex, race and ethnic origin, age and source of income say that the taste is incredibly or very vital for what to eat. In all those subgroups, at least seven out of ten strongly prioritize the taste.
The value of the stickers can assign possible food options and, secondly, the prices classified as precedence between the 4 criteria we ask for. The position is very vital for about six Americans in ten when it comes to choosing that the food obtains, and plays a more important role among low -income income respondents than those who are received. Three quarters of low income from US income say that the food charge is incredibly or much higher when food is a resolution to obtain 36 percentage problems higher than the upper source of adult adults.
Around part (52%) says that food aptitude is very vital when making the decision to eat. And prioritize physical aptitude on food tracks with the declaration of more physical nutrition. Among Americans who say that the physical state in food is incredibly or very vital, 35% describes their own nutrition as very physical, opposite 3% of adults who say that physical aptitude is not too vital.
The most strengthened stocks of black adults (58%) and Hispanics (57%) that white adults (49%) say that food aptitude is or very important.
With 11 points, it greatly appreciates the aptitude of food that men (58% opposite to 47% of men). And more than men they feel that the 4 priorities we have asked are very important: the taste (86% opposite to 79% of men), the load (66% opposition to 57% of men) and the convenience (50% opposition to 43% of men).
Of the 4 criteria of which we asked questions, the smallest component (47%) firmly favors the practice of food to download and prepare. The price of the price that Americans give to practical nutrition varies according to age, more young adults who favor more than the oldest convenience.
Meal decisions fear what to eat and get food. Sometimes home cooking is considered to be healthier and less expensive than dinner or asking. At the same time, the expansion of food delivery and online programs can facilitate and faster eat food made in the restaurant.
Eating homemade foods is much more unusual than having dinner or ordering. Almost nine adults at age ten eat a homemade meal at least several times a week. The much smaller (17%) stocks say they eat delivery or take dishes in this clip, and 12% say the same thing to eat in a restaurant.
Eating outside door and ordering are rare occasions for some. A third says they order delivery or delivery dishes several times a year or never, and 35% say the same thing to eat in a restaurant.
Our research shows that the more Americans say they eat homemade meals, the greater it will be. Around 3 Americans at the age of ten who eat at home in the kitchen every day say their nutrition is incredibly or very healthy. This falls 12% in adults who have less homemade meals.
On the contrary, 28% of Americans who eat at home in the kitchen for a week or less describe their nutrition as not too healthy, opposite 12% of those who have the house cooking daily.
On the other hand, Americans who control the maximum or maximum supply sign less healthy nutritions than those who order less narrow over a third of adults who order at least sometimes a week say that their nutrition is not too healthy or not. This percentage falls to 18% for Americans who order approximately once a week or shortly per month, and 15% for those who rarely or never.
Among adults who say that convenience is incredibly or very vital for their food choices, 23% of orders or taking at least a week. This represents approximately double in the component of this order among Americans who say that convenience is not too vital or not at all.
Americans in the decreased finish of the scale of the source of income do not eat or order as much as the maximum source of adult adults. Approximately part of the low source of income that Americans eat in a food place several times a year or never. On the other hand, 18% of adults with a higher source of income say the same.
The income hole source is less pronounced to order the dishes or delivery. The percentage of low adult income source (38%) that say they rarely or never order 10 higher problems than in the upper source of income (28%).
In addition to individual personal tastes in terms of food options, we have asked questions about 3 influences about the ability of Americans to download healthy foods: cost, access and knowledge.
The food that Worths has brought in recent years and deserves to continue accumulating in 2025. Americans agree with the resolution: 90% say that in recent years, the value of healthy foods has a lot or a little more expensive.
But is it Americans’ ability to eat healthy?
Having healthy nutrition can be complicated for Americans who are difficult to locate healthy foods where they live. People in racial and ethnic minority groups, which have decreased the source of income and those living in rural spaces are more likely of healthier foods.
In balance, Americans say it is simple to locate healthy foods near their residence position. About two thirds (65%) say it is very or simple to locate healthy foods near them. On the other hand, 13% say it is very or complicated to locate healthy foods near them. And 21% say it is not simple or complicated.
Decisions to eat can also be molded through healthy food wisdom. But making sense of nutritional recommendations and recommendations is not easy.
The Americans who are safer of their wisdom of healthy foods are more likely to say that their nutrition is healthy. A third of those who explicit the wonderful confidence in their healthy food wisdom say that their nutrition is incredibly healthy, opposite to only 5% of those who explicit little or no confidence in their healthy food wisdom.
On the other hand, 53% of Americans who have little or no confidence in their healthy food wisdom say their nutrition is too healthy. Only 11% of adults who have wonderful confidence in their healthy food wisdom say the same about their nutrition.
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