Fish fingers and salmon top UK food menu

FISH fingers and salmon are now firm favourites on Britain’s menu of best liked foods, says Young’s Seafood.

Young’s recently commissioned the research to delve into the nation’s culinary habits, with bacon, pizza, roast potatoes and sausages also making the list.

Whatever our food of choice, the research revealed that we like to tuck into our preferred dish 16 times a month.

Fish fingers were named by almost a third of respondents as their favourite food, beating off competition from salt and vinegar crisps and kebabs.

And it is not just children who like them. They came out top of the list in the 45 to 59 age group. Salmon also emerged as a favourite in the seafood list.

The research also polled attitudes to both buying and eating UK produced food. Some 68 per cent of people prefer to buy British, and most do it to support British producers, they said.

Four out of ten (41 per cent) said they felt the quality was better, while another one in four said buying British made them feel patriotic. Glaswegians and residents of Edinburgh are the most passionate about buying British in the UK as a whole.

Yvonne Adam, marketing director at Young’s Seafood, said: ‘It was really interesting to look into the nation’s eating habits, and explore the UK’s favourites.

‘These foods clearly have a big impact on us. Some 81 per cent of people say they eat their favourites to make themselves feel happy, or perk them up after a hard day. It’s also fantastic to still see such a high demand for fish fingers.’

The study did find, though, that Britons are now more open minded when it comes to trying new foods. Almost three quarters of adults said their culinary horizons had expanded. More than half formed their opinion on favourite foods in childhood. THE total volume of sales of fresh fish and seafood fell in western Europe from 5.99 million tonnes in 2010 to 5.88 million tonnes in 2015, according to Euromonitor International.

Sales of processed fish and seafood also declined, from 2.63 million tonnes in 2010 to 2.58 million