Slovaks eating only 3 litres per year of ice cream

Only small amounts of ice cream are being produced in Slovakia nowadays, so the country has to import it from abroad, mainly from the Czech Republic, reported TASR earlier in the week. Although Slovakia has never been among the top ice cream producers, back in 2009 domestic production of ice cream was capable of covering at least some part of ice cream consumption in Slovakia. "At that time Slovak factories produced around 1.5 litres of ice cream per capita per year. Nowadays, the figure is below 30 millilitres per capita per year," stated UniCredit Bank analyst Ľubomír Koršňák in an analysis based on Eurostat data. The annual consumption of ice cream in Slovakia is estimated at some three litres per capita. Koršňák went on to say that almost two thirds of the ice cream sold in Slovakia are imported from the neighbouring Czech Republic, with another 10 percent coming from Poland and Germany. The average European consumes around seven litres of ice cream per year.