{"id":5437,"date":"2021-02-05T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:00:46","slug":"fruit-and-vegetable-consumption-among-adults-in-the-united-states-2015-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/02\/05\/5437\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adults in the United States, 2015\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db397.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5440\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/db397_cover.png?w=110\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>A new NCHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db397.htm\">report<\/a> examines the percentage of adults aged 20 and over who consumed fruit and vegetables on a given day by sex and income in 2015\u20132018 and trends in fruit and vegetable consumption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than two-thirds (67.3%) of adults aged 20 and over consumed any fruit on a given day, and fruit consumption was higher among women (70.5%) compared with men (63.8%).<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 95% of adults consumed any vegetables on a given day.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of adults who consumed any fruit; citrus, melon, or berries; and other types of whole fruit on a given day increased with income.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of adults who consumed dark green, red and orange, other vegetables, and any vegetable types on a given day increased with income.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of adults who consumed any fruit on a given day decreased from 77.2% in 1999\u20132000 to 64.9% in 2017\u20132018, but there was no change in the percentage consuming any vegetables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NCHS report examines the percentage of adults aged 20 and over who consumed fruit and vegetables on a given day by sex and income in 2015\u20132018 and trends in fruit and vegetable consumption. Key Findings: More than two-thirds (67.3%) of adults aged 20 and over consumed any fruit on a given day, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62268,62277,50899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}