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Nutrition in Turkey: Consumption of red meat and seafood is low, obesity is high!
Turkey is one of the European countries that consumes the least red meat and seafood.
According to the compilation made by Tuğba Öztürk from Hürriyet Daily by examining the data of FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) and WHO (World Health Organization), Turkey is the country that consumes the least fish in Europe.
Consuming an average of 5 kilograms of fish per person per year, according to FAO’s data, Turkey is at the bottom of the European Fish League.
Iceland is at the top in annual seafood consumption with 92 kilograms. Portugal with 57 kilograms, Norway with 51 kilograms, Spain with 42 kilograms and Sweden with 34 kilograms.
According to the list, Turkey is the country that “loves fish the least”. Turkey is followed by other Balkan countries. Albania 9 kilograms, Romania 8 kilograms, Bulgaria 7 kilograms; Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Hungary consume 6 kilograms of seafood.
Turkey is among the countries that consume the least red meat. A similar picture is observed in FAO’s “red meat consumption” data.
Spain is the country that consumes the most red meat in Europe with 99 kilograms per capita. the Spaniards are followed by Portugal with 95 kilograms, Iceland with 91 kilograms, Poland with 88 kilograms and Austria with 87 kilograms.
Turkey, on the other hand, is among the countries that eat the least red meat with an annual consumption of 39 kilograms, along with Albania, North Macedonia and Moldova.
Turkey, the European leader in obesity!
Turkey, which eats the least fish and red meat, is also at the top of the ‘European Obesity League’. According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO), 32.1 percent of Turks are obese!
Turkey is followed by England with 27.8 percent, Ireland with 25.3 percent, Czechia with 26 percent, Hungary with 26.4 percent and Lithuania with 26.3 percent.
The country with the lowest obesity rate in Europe is Moldova with 18.9 percent. Moldova is followed by Switzerland with 19.5 percent, Denmark with 19.7 percent, Italy with 19.9 percent and Austria with 20.1 percent.
