A survey conducted in 2020 revealed that one fifth of the respondents aged from 45 to 54 years old in the United Kingdom (UK) never checked the calorie content when buying food. A share of 19 percent of respondents within the 18 to 24 years old category said that they always looked at the calories of the food they were buying.
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