Food and You 2: Northern Ireland Wave 5-6 Key Findings F&Y2 Wave 5-6 NI: Executive Summary

Food and You 2 is a biannual ‘Official Statistic’ survey commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The survey measures self-reported consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to food safety and other food issues amongst adults in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This report presents the findings from Waves 5 and 6 of the Food and You 2 survey, collected from respondents in Northern Ireland. Wave 5 fieldwork was conducted between 63T26P thP April and 24th July 2022 and Wave 6 fieldwork was conducted between 12th October 2022 and 10th January 2023. A total of 1,875 adults in Northern Ireland took part in Wave 5 and 1,644 adults in Northern Ireland took part in Wave 6. The modules presented in this report include ‘Food you can trust’, ‘Concerns about food’, ’Food security’, ‘Eating out and takeaways’, ‘Food allergies, intolerances and other hypersensitivities’, ‘Eating at home’ and ‘Food shopping and labelling’. Findings presented in this report refer to data collected in Northern Ireland unless otherwise specified. Where the same data were collected in both Waves 5 and 6, the findings from Wave 6 are reported.