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Nation Cymru staff<\/p>\n
Wales has served up one of Britain\u2019s biggest healthy eating transformations, with nearly three quarters of adults now saying their diets are in good shape.<\/p>\n
YouGov data analysed by kitchen experts at Prestige found 74% of Welsh adults described their eating habits as either \u201cvery healthy\u201d or \u201cfairly healthy\u201d in June 2026.<\/p>\n
That put Wales level with the Rest of the South and only narrowly behind London and Scotland in the latest regional table.<\/p>\n
However, the scale of Wales\u2019s improvement since before the pandemic gives the nation a stronger claim to healthy eating success.<\/p>\n
Across three YouGov surveys conducted in 2019, an average of 65% of adults in Wales described their eating habits as healthy.<\/p>\n
That figure has since risen by nine percentage points to 74%, the second-biggest improvement of any region analysed.<\/p>\n
Only Scotland, which recorded a 10-percentage point increase, made a larger gain.<\/p>\n
Wales also had Britain\u2019s second-highest proportion of people describing their eating habits as \u201cvery healthy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Some 14% of Welsh respondents selected the most positive answer, behind only London on 16%.<\/p>\n
A further 60% described their eating habits as \u201cfairly healthy\u201d, while 24% said they were either \u201cnot very healthy\u201d or \u201cnot healthy at all\u201d.<\/p>\n
The latest result represents a major turnaround for Wales, which shared the lowest healthy eating average with Scotland across the three 2019 surveys but now sits within two percentage points of table-topping London.<\/p>\n
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