How much chocolate the average Brit eats in a lifetime and how much it costs will make you put down the Dairy Milk
Research reveals the UK's favourite chocolate bars as well as how many we get through
THE typical Brit will munch through almost 1.5 tonnes of chocolate worth more than £12,000 in their lifetime, according to a new study.
Researchers polled 2,000 UK adults and found they’ll each tuck into 7,004 bars on average – including 1,642 dark chocolate, 1,425 white and 3,934 milk, weighing in at 315kg.
The nation’s favourite is Cadbury Dairy Milk, with those polled typically consuming 22 of them in total every year and 1,317 in their lifetime.
Snickers secured second spot, with Brits devouring 14 bars a year, and the third most popular choccy treat is a Bounty with 12 bars consumed annually.
Commissioned by leading savings site, VoucherCodes, the research also found four in 10 Brits admit to being a chocoholic.
And six in 10 would hate to live in a world without the cocoa-based treat.
TOP 30 - UK’S FAVOURITE CHOCOLATE BARS
- Cadbury Dairy Milk
- Snickers
- Bounty
- Flake
- Twirl
- Mars Bar
- Twix
- Kit Kat Chunky
- Kit Kat
- Crunchie
- Galaxy Ripple
- Aero Mint
- Toblerone
- Wispa
- Cadbury's Fruit and Nut
- Double Decker
- Lindor
- Cadbury Fudge
- Cadbury Caramel
- Aero
- Yorkie
- Milkybar
- Galaxy Caramel
- Picnic
- Fry's Turkish Delight
- Toffee Crisp
- Rolo
- MilkyWay
- Boost
- Munchies
Anita Naik, lifestyle editor of VoucherCodes, said: “As the results show, we Brits absolutely adore chocolate – whether it’s in the form of a bar, a biscuit or even a slice of cake.
“Although more than one third of the nation say chocolate is their absolute favourite food, I was still surprised to learn our chocolate obsession will cost each of us £12k in a lifetime.
“It’s clear that despite bar sizes shrinking and prices going up, we Brits are still happy to spend our cash on a sugary pick-me-up.”
It also emerged Brits will crack into a total of 104 Easter Eggs during their lifetime – that’s 13kg of chocolate overall.
It’s not just bars and Easter eggs we’re munching our way through, 668 slices of chocolate cake will be savoured – working out to be 44kg.
Almost 3,000 mugs of hot chocolate will be downed, weighing in at 943kg.
And we’ll nibble away at 8,719 or 92kg of biscuits or cookies containing chocolate over our lifetimes.
Despite being devout chocolate fans, nine in 10 of those surveyed revealed they are willing to share a box of chocolate.
Carried out through OnePoll.com, the research also found those polled eat chocolate on 123 separate days throughout the course of a typical year.
Amid this, 40 per cent admit they spend too much on chocolate and four in 10 think it is simply too expensive.
Eager to get their fix, 12 per cent have pinched chocolate from colleagues at work and 35 per cent have "borrowed" it from their partner.
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But most shockingly of all, 28 per cent have nabbed it from their own children.
Anita Naik added: “But if you’re smart you can even get that chocolate hit for less, make sure you check for a discount code before you shop – you can get a saving with everyone from Thorntons to Godiva.”
For the full survey results .
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