6.8% meet vege recs
May 12, 2014
THE Australian Bureau of
Statistics found only 6.8% of
Australians met the recommended
usual intake of vegetables in its
2011-12 National Nutrition and
Physical Activity Survey.
The survey had more than 12,000
participants, aged two years and
over, and found that 75% reported
eating vegetable products and
dishes, but based on self-reporting
of usual consumption, only 6.8%
met the recommendations.
Sixty percent of people reported
eating fruit products and dishes
the day before the survey
interview, with 54% meeting the
recommendations for usual fruit
serves.
The survey also found 29% of
Australians said they had taken a
dietary supplement the day before
the survey and almost half, or 49%,
of women aged 71 years or over
had taken a supplement.
Fifty percent of supplement-takers
had only taken one type, 26% had
taken two difference supplements
and 24% had taken three or more.
Multi-vitamins were the most
commonly taken at about 16% of
the population and calcium and
vitamin D were taken by between
3% and 4% overall.
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