Table 7.

Proportions (%) of Australian young adults aged 18–34 years consuming vegetables and fruits per meal occasion (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks), grouped according to the number of servings consumed throughout the day, National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2011–12 (n 2397)

	Vegetables
	≤75 g/d	76–150 g/d	151–225 g/d	226–300 g/d	301–375 g/d	>375 g/d
Meal occasion	≤1 serving/d (n 490)	≤2 servings/d (n 565)	≤3 servings/d (n 305)	≤4 servings/d (n 283)	≤5 servings/d (n 182)	>5 servings/d (n 360)	P *
Breakfast	3·5	6·0	10·8	11·7	11·5	19·7	<0·001
Lunch	47·8	58·9	64·9	67·5	78·6	71·1	<0·001
Dinner	67·8	83·2	90·2	91·2	93·4	95·8	<0·001
Snacks‡	12·2	12·4	15·4	20·1	19·8	25·3	<0·001
	Fruit†
	≤150 g/d		151–300 g/d		>300 g/d
Meal occasion	≤1 serving/d(n 402)		≤2 servings/d (n 479)		>2 servings/d (n 261)		P *
Breakfast	31·1		22·5		31·8		0·01
Lunch	16·4		15·2		27·6		<0·001
Dinner	18·2		10·9		15·3		0·01
Snacks‡	46·3		78·7		81·2		<0·001

^*From χ ² analysis of differences in proportions of persons consuming vegetables/fruits at each meal according to categories of servings consumed; significant P values indicated in bold font.

^†Excluding fruit juice.

^‡Snacks included all foods consumed between main meals.