{"id":447724,"date":"2026-05-27T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447724\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:35:22","slug":"rice-consumption-in-fiscal-2025-the-lowest-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447724\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice consumption in fiscal 2025 the lowest in seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rice consumption in Japan fell to its lowest level in seven years in fiscal 2025, as soaring prices pushed more consumers toward cheaper staples such as bread and noodles.<\/p>\n<p>Average monthly rice consumption declined 6.1% from the previous year to 4.435 kilograms per person, according to a consumer survey released by an industry-backed Japanese body that tracks supply-demand trends for the staple. The drop is equivalent to about 4.4 bowls of rice per person over the course of the year, based on a standard serving size of 65 grams of rice.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide survey, conducted online via a self-administered questionnaire, estimated at-home rice consumption based on household inventories, purchases and family size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rice consumption in Japan fell to its lowest level in seven years in fiscal 2025, as soaring prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6689,138,219,1943,111,139,69,16455],"class_list":["post-447724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}