Balance Sheet for Food Commodities 2012, preliminary and 2011 final figures

Per capita grain consumption totalled 79.2 kilos in 2012. Of this, wheat accounted for 47 kilos, rye for 15.5 kilos, oats for just over 5 kilos and rice likewise for 5 kilos. Wheat consumption rose by just over a kilo on the previous year, while consumption of oats and rye fell by about half a kilo.
The per capita consumption of fresh fruit totalled 51.5 kilos, representing growth of just under one per cent on the previous year.
Meat consumption remained at roughly the same level as in the previous year. With game and edible offal included, per capita meat consumption totalled 77.5 kilos in 2012. Poultry consumption rose by three per cent and beef consumption by just under one per cent, while pork consumption fell by over one per cent on the previous year.
Egg consumption rose by six per cent on the previous year to 10.6 kilos per person.
An average of 130 litres of milk was drunk in 2012, of which about half was low-fat milk, 40 per cent skimmed milk and 10 per cent whole milk. Whole milk consumption rose by just under 10 per cent and low-fat milk by about one per cent. The consumption of skimmed milk declined for the second year in a row, but the fall was about half as much as in 2011.
Butter consumption continued to rise, but at a more moderate rate than in the previous year. In 2012, Finns consumed an average of just over four kilos of butter and three kilos of butter-vegetable oil mixtures. 22 kilos of cheese were eaten per person – about one more kilo than in the previous year.

Consumption of food commodities per capita

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