QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥20 Years Who Consumed Vegetables On a Given Day, by Race and Hispanic Origin — United States, 2015–2018

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• Alternative Title:
  Percentage of Adults Aged ≥20 Years Who Consumed Vegetables on a Given Day, by Race and Hispanic Origin — United States, 2015–2018
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Ansai, Nicholas ; Wambogo, Edwina ; Terry, Ana
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  During 2015–2018, 95.1% of adults aged ≥20 years consumed any vegetable, 26.3% consumed dark green vegetables, 79.2% consumed red and orange vegetables, 50.3% consumed starchy vegetables, and 78.8% consumed other vegetables on a given day. Non-Hispanic Black adults were least likely to consume any vegetable (92.8%). Non-Hispanic Black adults were also least likely to consume dark green (21.3%), red and orange (73.7%), and other vegetables (71.2%), and non-Hispanic Asian adults were most likely to consume dark green (45.9%) and other vegetables (88.4%). Non-Hispanic Black (53.8%) and non-Hispanic Asian (56.0%) adults were more likely to consume starchy vegetables.
  
  Sources: Ansai N, Wambogo EA. Fruit and vegetable consumption among adults in the United States, 2015–2018. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief, no 397. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db397.htm; NCHS, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.) (NHANES) data, NHANES 2017–2018. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
  
  Reported by: Nicholas Ansai, MPH; Edwina Wambogo, PhD; Ana Terry, MS.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Epidemiology Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(27):983
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  27
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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