Stéphane Place 7:06 a.m., January 25, 2023, modified at 7:07 a.m., January 25, 2023

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Today, "those under 35 eat three to four times less fruit and vegetables than their grandparents", explains the president of the Interprofession (Interfel).

This figure challenges distributors and producers.

What's stuck?

You know the recommendations of Public Health France: you must eat five fruits and vegetables a day.

“For example three servings of vegetables and two fruits or four of vegetables and one fruit”, we can read, because it is good for your health.

But among young people, this is far from being applied to the letter.

Traders testify to this.

Like this clear statement from Faouzi, who sells fruit and vegetables just a stone's throw from one of the most important high schools in Bordeaux: "Young people don't come to get fruit, they don't buy from me", confides- he told Europe 1. Justine, 24, admits that she prefers fruit to a more gourmet dessert, like the chocolate waffle she is enjoying.

"It's true that it doesn't occur to me," she confides to the microphone of Europe 1. "It's been some time since I ate fruit, but I think it's something natural to turn to something that appeals to us more in terms of taste than something that is good for our health."

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Ease rather than quality?

Fruit, Gaylis loves to eat it, but vegetables are more complicated because they have to be prepared.

"We no longer have this thing of motivating ourselves to cook," says the 18-year-old student.

"Then it often takes time. I take it easier, pasta or dishes already made."

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In his store on Place Nansouty, Benoît observes that the young people who come to help him with fruit and vegetables favor quality over quantity.

"The youngest are more in search of knowing the seasons, therefore fewer quantities. Less at any time. But having good products", explains the trader.

No tomatoes in winter and a greener attitude for consumers under 35.