The table illustrates how much dairy products, milk and butter, are consumed by four age groups in countries in Europe. Overall, it can be seen that milk and butter consumption increases with age increment, except for butter usage for seniors. It also is clear that younger groups, less than 25 years, consume more full-fat products than other groups do.
In terms of milk, younger people, less than 25 years, drink 1200 cc of milk weekly, which is the lowest among all groups, and more than a half prefer full fat to low fat. This pattern is reversed for seniors who consume 700 ccs more milk than younger people, and two-thirds prefer low-fat milk. The consumption of milk for the other two groups, 26 to 45 and 45 to 65 is almost similar 1650 and 1670 respectively. Although more than two-thirds of the 26 to 45 group drink low-fat, this number is slightly more than half for the 45 to 65 group.
Regarding butter, its consumption increases with age increment, except for seniors. people younger than 25 years eat 12 grams of butter weekly which is just seven grams less than the next age group 26 to 45 years. However, their interest patterns in fat content are reversed since 60 per cent of the young group like full fat compared to 40 per cent in the other group. The middle-aged group and seniors have almost similar tastes in fat, half prefer low-fat butter. The only difference is the proportion of consumption as seniors eat butter half of the middle age people do, at 30 grams and 60 grams respectively.