Opinion about cooking healthy meals

In 2016, restaurants in Belgium had stronger prejudices about balanced nutrition than in other FOOD programme countries as a lower share of them disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statements that preparing healthy meals was more expensive (14%), that it took more time to cook healthy/balanced meals (24%) and that preparing healthy meals was more difficult (32%).

Prejudices about cooking healthy meals have reinforced in 2016 in comparison with the previous years, particularly with 2014, as we notice a clear drop in the share of restaurants disagreeing or strongly disagreeing with the negative previous statements.