Prevalence of each nutritional disturbance and prevalence ratio (PR; with 95 % confidence interval in parentheses) for children with no/rare consumption of fruits and vegetables (FFI0; ) compared with children with regular consumption of fruits and vegetables (FFI1–4; ); Brazilian children aged 4–10 years (n 702), Acrelândia, Western Brazilian Amazon, December 2007. Stunting defined as height-for-age Z-score<−2; anaemia defined as Hb<110·0 g/l for children under 5 years and Hb<115·0 g/l for children aged 5–10 years; VEI, vitamin E insufficiency, defined as serum tocopherol<11·61 µmol/l; VAD, vitamin A deficiency, defined as serum retinol<0·70 µmol/l; VDI, vitamin D insufficiency, defined as serum vitamin D<75 nmol/l; ND, nutritional disorders, defined as having at least one of the nutritional disturbances except for VDI; FFI, Food Frequency Index for fruit and vegetable consumption; FFI0, consumption of vegetables never or ≤3 times/month and fruits ≤3 times/week; FFI1–4, consumption of vegetables ≥1 time/week and fruits ≥4 times/week