Table 3.
Food consumption accomplishment based on AESAN recommendations of participants from rural and urban areas
| FOOD GROUPS | TOTAL (n = 291) % (n) |
RURAL (n = 189) % (n) |
URBAN (n = 102) % (n) |
p-value1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit and vegetables (≥ 5 servings/day) | 10.7 (291) | 13.8 (26) | 4.9 (5) | 0.019 |
| Dairy products (≤ 3 servings/day) | 93.1 (271) | 95.8 (181) | 88.2 (90) | 0.015 |
| Cereals (≥ 3 servings/day) | 4.5 (13) | 3.2 (6) | 6.9 (7) | 0.146 |
| White meat (≤ 3 servings/week) | 76.5 (215) | 76.7 (138) | 76.2 (77) | 0.935 |
| Red meat (≤ 2 servings/week) | 83.6 (229) | 84.5 (147) | 82 (82) | 0.593 |
| Processed meat (≤ 1 serving/week) | 12.7 (37) | 11.1 (21) | 15.7 (16) | 0.264 |
| Fish and seafood (≥ 3 servings/week) | 80.1 (233) | 79.4 (150) | 81.4 (83) | 0.683 |
| Eggs (≤ 4 servings/week) | 82.2 (221) | 84 (142) | 79 (79) | 0.298 |
| Legumes(≥ 4 servings/week) | 7.1 (20) | 6.5 (12) | 8.2 (8) | 0.576 |
| Sweets (≤ 1 serving/week) | 28.5 (83) | 25.9 (49) | 33.3 (34) | 0.182 |
AESAN, Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición
1 Chi-squared (Pearson) adjusted by age
Significant p-value (p ≤ 0.05) in bold