According to new research by take-out service Grubhub, which handles billions of dollars in food orders every year, the Paleo Diet is said to be on the rise as the most popular with consumers in the U.S. right now.
The Paleo Diet is a food lifestyle which promotes the consumption of items like meat,fish, vegetables, healthy fats, nuts, seeds, and fruits. And discourages the consumption of things like dairy, grains, processed foods, and sugars. It can also be referred to as the Caveman or the Stone Age diet.
When it comes to the Paleo diet, there are variations made. There are different opinions within the Paleo crowd, on exactly what should be considered acceptable within the diet. For example, some who follow the Paleo diet think it's fine to incorporate eggs or grass-fed butter, while others do not.
Grubhub recently analyzed their online take-out orders to try and estimate what sort of diet might be the most popular. The Paleo food sales that they saw in 2016 were said to have been a 370 per cent increase from the year before.
In order to analyze the orders, they investigated specific diet tags and eating plans of orders placed, and they examined orders from January 1st of last year up until December 31st of 2016.
Aside from the popularity of Paleo, their data also revealed that Seattle is apparently the most health-conscious city within the country.
They had the most amount of orders placed that required specific dietary instructions related to various eating plans or diets. One of the most popular plans in Seattle is said to be the gluten-free restriction.
Where did they find the Paleo diet to be the most popular? Texas.
Aside from the popularity increase for the Paleo diet, they also notice that the raw food trend is on the rise as well, along with others. When it comes to their increase in 2016 compared to 2015, here is what they found:
- Raw food diet 92 % increase
- Vegan diet 58% increase
- Keto 5% increase
- Gluten-free 35% increase
Others on the rise were juice cleanse food plans, low fat, and Mediterranean.
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