MUMBAI: Consumers have been gorging on pasta and noodles during the lockdown, in addition to salty snacks and biscuits, data on household consumption patterns shows.

In fact, it is pasta that has seen the sharpest spike in consumption with volumes jumping nearly three-and-a-half times from 2,200 tonnes to over 7,600 tonnes during the 12 weekly periods between April second week and the second week of July, Kantar’s Worldpanel division’s numbers shared with TOI reveal.