NPD’s Morning MealScape 2011 study, which delves into the situational factors and attitudinal drivers impacting consumers’ food and beverage choices in the morning, finds that males, 18-34, have the highest incidence of skipping (28%) whereas those adults 55 and older have the lowest incidence of skipping (11% for males, ages 55 and older, and 10% for females in this age range) among adults.
Among children, the incidence of skipping (percent of individuals who are up, but don’t eat or drink anything in the morning) increases as children age with 13-to-17-year-olds having the highest incidence (14%) of skipping.
Among the reasons individuals give for not eating or drinking anything prior to 11am, is that they weren’t hungry/thirsty or didn’t feel like eating or drinking. Other top reasons are that they didn’t have time and were too busy.
Adult females show a higher propensity to skip a morning occasion due to a time constraint, like being too busy, rushing to get out the door, or running late.
Approximately one in five consume items both at home and away from home on a typical day and 14% of individuals have their morning meals away from home.
Dori Hickey, director, product management at NPD and author of Morning MealScape 2011, said: “With 31 million people skipping breakfast each day there is a significant opportunity for food and beverage marketers to reach these consumers.
“Marketing messages emphasising the importance of having a morning meal should be age and gender specific in order to increase their effectiveness. To convert teens, a two-pronged approach may be necessary, one that appeals directly to teenagers, the other to provide strategies for parents of teens.”
Source: NPD
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