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Table 49: Frequency of cooking from scratch
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon Saudi
Arabia Senegal
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Always
0%
0% 26% 22% 0%
58%
65%
Often
60% 30% 21% 39% 25%
35%
5%
Sometimes
40% 45% 21% 32% 25%
4%
20%
Rarely
0% 25% 21% 6% 35%
1%
5%
Never
0%
0% 6%
1% 15%
3%
5%
Many the Afghanistan respondents
often
cook from scratch (60%]. All of them report to do it at
least
sometimes.
30% of the Beninese respondents
often
cook from scratch at home, while 45%
sometimes
do so.
25%
rarely
cook from scratch.
Cameroonian people are quite divided as for answering the question of the frequency of cooking
from scratch. 6,19% never do so but for the rest, the breakdown of the answers is regular with
a fifth or a quarter of the surveyed persons for each proposition.
As for the Saudi respondents, almost all of them reported that they cook some dishes from
scratch whereas around 7% rarely or never cook anything from scratch.
Senegalese respondents rarely (35%) or
never
(15%) cook from scratch at home. The other half
do it at least
sometimes.
So, the respondents are quite divided in their habits in this regards but
the majority do it only
sometimes,
at the most (75%).
More than half of all Turkish participants (58%) stated that they always cook a food from
scratch, whereas only 1% said rarely and 3% said never to the question asking about the
frequency of cooking a food from scratch.
Uzbekistan respondents cook from scratch at least
sometimes
(90% of the cases). They are only
10% do
rarely
(5%) or
never
(5%) cook from scratch.
Table 50: Frequency of heating up chilled or frozen meals or eating convenience foods
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon Saudi
Arabia Senegal
Turkey Uzbekistan
Always
0
70
33
5
0
0
5
Often
0
30
20
27
25
4
5
Sometimes
5
0
21
54
25
25
20
Rarely
55
0
20
13
30
37
20
Never
40
0
5
1
20
35
50
Almost all the participants to the survey lead in Afghanistan reported that they never (40%), or
at the most rarely (55%) eat ready-to-eat food or reheat chilled or frozen meal.
All the Beninese respondents reported to eat ready-to-eat food or reheat chilled or frozen meal
at least
often
.
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