Insee Focus · May 2021 · n° 236

In 2017, 20% of households consumed food products produced by themselves or by another household

In 2017, one household in five consumed food from its own production or that of another household. It may have been products from the garden, from the backyard, from gathering, from hunting or preserved prepared from these products. Vegetables were the most frequently self-consumed foodstuffs, ahead of fruit, eggs, milk and dairy products. Two thirds of the households who self-consumed had a garden with a vegetable patch or orchard. Older people were more likely to self-consume. Self-consumption was more common in Mayotte, Martinique and the west of metropolitan France.