{"id":1056,"date":"2013-01-12T17:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/?page_id=1056"},"modified":"2016-04-06T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:35:30","slug":"honey-consumption","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/index.php\/honey-industry\/honey-consumption","title":{"rendered":"Honey Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\">Annual U.S. per capita Honey Consumption is <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\">1.3 pounds<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/index.php\/honey-consumption\/attachment\/honey\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Honey-312x600.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Consumption\" width=\"150\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% of the population directly purchases honey, 35% never eat honey, the remaining 15% consume honey in products made with honey (i.e. Honey Cereals, Honey Roasted Peanuts, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Total U.S. consumption was <i>410 million pounds<\/i> in 2010 according to USDA\u2019s Economic Research Service.\u00a0 The U.S. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.agmrc.org\/commodities__products\/livestock\/bees-profile\/');\" title=\"U.S. per capita consumption 1.3 lbs per year\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.agmrc.org\/commodities__products\/livestock\/bees-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">per capita consumption<\/a> of honey is around 1.3 pounds per year.\u00a0 The honey consumer eats between 2-2.5 lbs per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Honey is imported in order to meet total demand.\u00a0 In 2010, the share of imports in U.S. honey consumption was approximately 61 percent. (Source: USDA\/ERS, Sugar and Sweetener Outlook, March 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Industrial honey accounts for 45% of total domestic consumption. The primary industrial users are bakery, health food and cereal manufacturers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The food service industry consumes another 10% of domestic consumption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I eat my peas with\u00a0honey; I&#8217;ve done it all my life. They do taste kinda funny, but it keeps &#8217;em on the knife.&#8221; &#8211; Ogden Nash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual U.S. per capita Honey Consumption is 1.3 pounds 50% of the population directly purchases honey, 35% never eat honey, the remaining 15% consume honey in products made with honey (i.e. Honey Cereals, Honey Roasted Peanuts, etc.). Total U.S. consumption was 410 million pounds in 2010 according to USDA\u2019s Economic Research Service.\u00a0 The U.S. per <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3681,"parent":1060,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1056","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Honey consumption demographics US demand -domestic and imported supply<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Honey consumption 50% purchase honey, 35% never eat honey, 15% consume honey in products made with honey plus more fascinating demographic honey facts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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