The Swedish Food Agency regularly conducts so-called market basket studies. The purpose of these is to provide an overall picture of the amount of nutrients and the amount of potentially harmful substances the Swedish population is exposed to from the food.

The average amount of a substance that each person is exposed to from food is called per capita intake. In this report, we estimate per capita intake based on

•levels of nutrients or potentially harmful substances in different types of food

•how much of the different types of food each person consumes on average (“per capita consumption”).

The studies also set per capita intakes against various reference values to detect possible health risks. Since the market basket studies are conducted regularly, we also look for trends over time.

The food that was analysed1 was collected from regular grocery stores in the autumn of 2022. We analysed samples from each food group and estimated per capita intake of nutrients and potentially harmful substances based on the levels of such substances in each food group and per capita consumption of food within the food group. To estimate per capita consumption, we mainly used statistics from the Swedish Board of Agriculture from 2020. The results are compared with previous market basket studies from 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2015.