Albanians consume some 298 kg of vegetables each every year, the second-highest rate in the whole of Europe.
According to data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and processed by Landgeist, Croatians eat the most, just pipping Albanians to the post with 302 kg per year.
The lowest consumers of greens in the region were the Netherlands with just 58kg, followed by Slovakia with 64kg and Norway with 71kg.
North Macedonia also ranked highly in the Balkan region with 269 kg, as did Bosnia and Herzegovina with 247 kg. Serbians were the lowest in the region with just 88kg, while Greeks eat 155kg.
Western Europe scored very poorly, with the UK eating just 77kg, just 6kg a month. France was also low at 99kg as was Germany (90kg) and across-the-water Italy with 125kg.
The only other country to come close to Albania’s score is Turkey with 230kg.
The amount of vegetables one needs to maintain a healthy diet depends on age and sex but on average, around 240 grams per adult per day or 87.6 kg per year. This means Albanians are three and a half times more healthy than recommended.
”We can see that a bit more than half of the European countries meet this requirement. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, and Sweden do not meet the requirement, with the Netherlands consuming the smallest amount of vegetables in all of Europe”, states the web portal.
