Takeaway burgers appeared for the first time on the UK’s annual survey of shopping habits in 2003.

Co-op supermarkets are part of an international co-operative movement which spans over 100 countries.

Brixton market on Electric Avenue, SW9, offers the biggest selection of Caribbean food in Europe.

The top six supermarkets in the UK compete with each other by offering customers incentives such as long opening hours.  They also control around 70% of the total grocery market in the UK.

Newly available vegetables and exotic salad leaves (such as rocket, radicchio, chicory and baby spinach) have grown in popularity compared with traditional vegetables like swedes, parsnips and Brussels sprouts.

Consumers in the UK buy more ready-made meals than any other major European country, according to a recent report. Around £1.9 billion was spent on them in the UK in 2002.

On average one person gets through 90 drink cans, 70 food cans, 107 bottles and jars and 45kg of plastic each year in the UK.

Ice cream vans are a familiar sight in the summer. Vanilla is the most popular flavour, it is chosen nine times out of ten.

Surveys have found that the average UK kitchen contains 1,000 recipes – however, only 7 ever actually get made!