Dinner Plate Sizes Over The Years

The size of your dinner plate can affect your weight.

Dinner plate sizes over the years.

By 2009 plate size had grown to 12 inches with the capacity to hold about 1900 calories. The calorie differences are illustrated in the graphic below. We eat off of big plates. Over the last twenty years the american diet has changed dramatically both in terms of the quantity and quality of our food intake.

Of course with increased portion sizing comes increased caloric intake. Since the early 1900s the size of a normal american dinner plate has become at least 25 larger. In 1970 americans took in an average of 2 160 calories per day. Trends are easy to spot and easy to mock as one decade s go to dish becomes the next decade s punch line.

This set has a bright creamy hue similar. A few decades ago plates measured 7 to 9 inches. The average dinner plate we commonly use today measures 11 or 12 inches across. Since 1960 the overall surface area of an average dinner plate has increased 36 percent.

Today it has skyrocketed to 2 673 daily calories per person. In fact since the 1970s the average size of foods from fast food chains restaurants and grocery stores has increased by 138. The plate industry has had its own growth spurt during the past 50 years. In the 1980s they grew to around 10 inches.

In the 1960s plates were roughly 9 inches in diameter. 37 heads for dinner. The dinner plate a symbol of nurturing and domestic plenty is as reliable a time capsule as fashion or pop music. Cited figures which show that a range of everyday supermarket products have increased in size over the last 20 years.

Since these increases happen slowly over time it s hard to notice it happening. Back in a modern kitchen you suddenly notice how vast everything is 28cm has become a normal diameter for a dinner plate which in the 1950s would have been 25cm. Simply reducing the size of a plate or. By the year 2000 the average dinner plate was 11 inches in diameter and now itâ s not unusual to find dishes that are 12 inches or larger.