Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Food and drink Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Food and drink in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Food and drink has an estimated audience of 35,590,264 people in Italy.

The average Food and drink fan in Italy is 42.3 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.

Demographically, the Food and drink audience skews balanced with an average age of 42.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Pet Ownership, Creativity.

Category: Food & Beverages · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Food and drink profile in Italy.

Audience size
35.6M
in Italy
Gender
53.1%
46.9% male
Age
42.3
average years
Country rank
#23
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-4%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Food and drink fans

53.1% are female, 46.9% are male, average age 42.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

53.1%
Female
46.9%
Male
Demographic split for Food and drink audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female53.1%
Male46.9%
Average age42.3
Estimated audience size35,590,264
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 42.3
average years
Age distribution of the Food and drink audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-1915%
20-2916%
30-3919%
40-4922%
50+28%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

4.4%

of the worldwide Food and drink audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Food and drink
CountryShare
United States22.7%
Japan8.7%
India5.5%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Italy average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Food and drink audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Food and drink fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Sicilia~4M1.24×
02Campania~4M1.05×
03Puglia~2.5M1.05×
04Molise~200K1.05×
05Aosta Valley~100K1.05×
06Basilicata~300K1.03×
07Liguria~1M1.01×
08Calabria~1M0.99×
09Marche~900K0.99×
10Lazio~4.5M0.98×
11Umbria~600K0.98×
12Abruzzo~800K0.96×
13Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~600K0.96×
14Friuli-Venezia Giulia~600K0.96×
15Sardinia~1M0.95×
16Emilia-Romagna~2.5M0.93×
17Piedmont~2.5M0.93×
18Lombardy~5.5M0.89×
19Tuscany~2M0.88×
20Veneto~2.5M0.87×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Food and drink audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Food and drink audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Pet OwnershipJOY0.83×
CreativityOPEN0.82×
DIY MentalityTHRILL0.79×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Food and drink audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Career OrientationPOWER0.69×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.70×
MindfulnessBALANCE0.71×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Food and drink. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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