길어지는 코로나에 배달음식 '주춤'•다이어트식 '불티'<br /><br />The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way people eat.<br />Following a steep surge in food delivery services, …sales of diet items have seen a steady rise amid the prolonged outbreak.<br />Park Se-young tells us more.<br />Konjac is a low-calorie, high-fiber root vegetable grown in Asia.<br />This fried rice product made with rice and rice-shaped konjac just needs to be heated up, …and has about half the calories of steamed rice.<br />Such products have become popular as the prolonged COVID-19 outbreak has got more people caring about their weight.<br />According to food company data, sales of konjac rice products increased by more than 60 percent in March compared to the previous month.<br /> “Sales have increased dramatically as of February. It seems that customers enjoying home meal replacements have bought them amid the prolonged coronavirus outbreak.”<br />One grocery delivery platform saw 13 times as many sales of its diet lunch boxes as it had seen the year before.<br />Meanwhile, the popularity of high-calorie delivery foods has been slumping.<br />Major fried chicken franchises say delivery sales, which were on the rise until February and March started to slow down in May.<br /> “At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, people refrained from going out and ordered a lot of delivery food but the prolonged outbreak has got people thinking more about their health.”<br />In accordance with such trends, the industry is working to launch easy-to-eat diet products.<br />Park Se-young, Arirang News.<br />
