National food survey

The British National Food Survey (NFS) has a long and distinguished history. It is renowned world wide for the continuity of its operation. The survey has been enquiring into the food consumption and expenditure of samples of households in Great Britain since the beginning of the Second World War in 1940. To start with only the diet of the ‘working classes’ was monitored but since the 1950s the survey has been expanded so that it now requests information from a wide cross section of the United Kingdom population.