No, that’s not my opinion – I love good marmalade – but sales of marmalade in the UK dropped by 4.4% last year; 441 000 households stopped buying it altogether in 2006, and more households buy honey or jam than buy marmalade, reports the Guardian:
Marmalade’s slide has been attributed to its not being sweet enough for young consumers. Fans of marmalade tend to be older, with 81% of all marmalade sold eaten by the over-45s.
Those young consumers are presumably the same ones who are overweight.
I usually lay my hands on a tin of thin-cut MARMADE (not Marmite) when in UK & that makes the best orange marmalade around…..