Approximately 42 per cent of the UK cereal crop is used to feed animals including pigs, chickens and cows which helps put bacon, sausages, eggs and milk on the nation’s breakfast table.

Oats contain high levels of soluble fibre, which act as a sponge, soaking up cholesterol – helping to lower cholesterol levels.

Every day 5 million Britons will eat sausages.

Ten million loaves of bread are baked in Britain every day

The first espresso coffee machine was imported into Britain. Coffee bars were very popular at this time.

98% of people take milk with tea.

Free school milk was provided in Britain from 1937 to 1979.

Mass production of sausages began in the 1900’s, being made from small amounts of cheap meat bulked out with fat and filler.

A serving of toast uses about 25g of cereals, a bowl of breakfast cereal uses approximately 50g of cereals and a cooked breakfast uses approximately 435g of cereals.

The most expensive sausages in the UK were made from fillet steak with champagne and truffles costing £20 each.

86% of tea is consumed at home.

Queen Victoria was fond of sausages but insisted that the meat be hand chopped rather than minced.

A wheat crop will produce on average about 7.5 tonnes of grain per hectare ( A hectare is about the size of an international football pitch) which is enough to make 11,500 loaves of bread.

Napoleons chief surgeon established the first grapefruit plantation in 1880

Worcestershire sauce was created by Worcester pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins.

Over 560 million bacon butties are eaten each year.

In August 2002 there were over 7000 Coffee Shops in Britain (Daily Mail Aug 2002)

Milk and milk products are a source of protein, calcium, zinc and magnesium, vitamin B12 and riboflavin.

20% of your daily calcium requirements can be got from ¼ pint of milk on your cornflakes.

It was in the 13th Century that the English started exporting wheat, barley and oats.

Sausage machines can fill sausages at a rate of one and a half miles an hour.

Sliced bread first appeared in Britain in 1930 under the Wonderbread label - hence the expression!

In Great Britain over £487 million is spent each year on sausages.

There are approximately 1500 different varieties of tea.

In one year we eat approximately 175,000 tonnes of sausages, worth £487 million.

One rule that naturists have to abide by is that they must be ‘dressed’ for breakfast.

90% of British households buy sausages.

Instant coffee was first sold in England in 1939. Coffee essence, like Camp, which had been sold since the 1850’s was now used for cooking and our love affair with coffee really began.

On average the UK produces around 15 million tonnes of wheat each year, nearly 7 million tonnes of barley and nearly 600,000 tonnes of oats.

Brunch is indeed an English word coined in 1895 by Guy Beringer as a post church meal