Through the Consumer Food Insight, CFDAS surveys 1,200 households from across the United States every month and tracks trends and changes in consumer food demand and other food sustainability behaviors.

The CFI was established in January 2022. Since then, we’ve surveyed more than 50,000 American adults nationwide on a monthly basis. Our mission is to deliver timely insights into consumer perceptions, behaviors and preferences related to current events and the agri-food system.

Consumer Food Insights

The fifth Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University details differences in food purchasing, preferences and food insecurity between racial and ethnic groups.


The fourth Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University compares answers of respondents living in rural versus urban areas and shares differences across food security and diet satisfaction.


The third Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University offers insights into the popularity of specific policies and how opinions differ depending on a consumer’s income.


Consumers are managing inflation in food prices for now, but their expectations to experience future inflation increased from last month, according to this month’s Consumer Food Insights Report from Purdue University.


Purdue experts conducted and evaluated the first Consumer Food Insights – a monthly survey to 1,200 consumers across the U.S. – to identify trends and changes in consumer food purchases and preferences.


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