. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 17.

Published in final edited form as: J Acad Nutr Diet. 2012 Apr 25;112(5):624–635.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2011.11.012

Table 1.

Percentages of adults aged 19+ years whose usual intakes of each food group are equal to or above the minimum recommended amounts¹ among income groups and race/ethnic groups, NHANES 2001-2004.

	Total fruits	Whole fruits	Total vegetables²	Dark green vegetables	Orange vegetables	Dry beans and peas²	Starchy vegetables	Other vegetables	Total grains	Whole grains	Meat and beans²	Milk	Oils
	% ± SE
All Adults (9126)	17.5 ± 1.08	25.1 ± 1.25	12.9 ± 1.22	5.9 ± 0.82	1.9 ± 0.90	3.5 ± 0.60	38.3 ± 2.28	48.9 ± 1.83	58.9 ± 1.39	0.8 ± 0.15	54.1 ± 1.29	7.7 ± 0.83	20.0 ± 1.52
Income group (n)

Lowest, PIR <=1.30 (2682)	13.8 ± 1.21 ^a	19.1 ± 1.29 ^a	7.7 ± 0.91 ^a	2.1 ± 0.67 ^a	1.4 ± 0.83 ^a	4.8 ± 1.00 ^ab	41.1 ± 3.55 ^a	34.7 ± 2.77 ^a	53.9 ± 2.37 ^a	0.3 ± 0.11 ^a	45.9 ± 1.80 ^a	4.8 ± 0.72 ^a	12.1 ± 1.52 ^a
Middle, PIR 1.31-1.85 (1194)	16.2 ± 1.62 ^a	22.1 ± 2.25 ^a	7.0 ± 1.15 ^a	3.8 ± 0.80 ^b	1.4 ± 0.81 ^a	6.1 ± 1.28 ^a	37.2 ± 3.71 ^a	33.1 ± 3.32 ^a	55.4 ± 3.18 ^ab	0.3 ± 0.12 ^a	47.8 ± 2.65 ^a	6.1 ± 1.16 ^a	10.3 ± 1.77 ^a
Highest, PIR >=1.86 (5250)	18.9 ± 1.14 ^b	27.4 ± 1.37 ^b	15.5 ± 1.46 ^b	7.4 ± 1.01 ^c	2.1 ± 1.04 ^a	2.7 ± 0.70 ^b	37.6 ± 2.29 ^a	56.0 ± 1.80 ^b	61.0 ± 1.46 ^b	1.0 ± 0.19 ^b	57.7 ± 1.72 ^b	9.0 ± 0.91 ^b	24.0 ± 1.86 ^b
Race/ethnic group (n)³

NHW (4763)	17.4 ± 1.21 ^ab	26.6 ± 1.49 ^a	14.1 ± 1.33 ^a	6.4 ± 0.89 ^a	2.1 ± 0.99 ^a	2.2 ± 0.68 ^a	39.7 ± 2.62 ^a	52.3 ± 2.20 ^a	59.9 ± 1.63 ^a	0.9 ± 0.18 ^a	52.6 ± 1.42 ^a	8.8 ± 0.95 ^a	21.9 ± 1.61 ^a
NHB (1804)	16.9 ± 1.31 ^a	15.3 ± 0.93 ^b	5.7 ± 0.90 ^b	6.8 ± 1.37 ^a	1.0 ± 0.58 ^a	1.7 ± 0.87 ^a	39.4 ± 2.97 ^a	22.7 ± 2.50 ^b	45.0 ± 1.92 ^b	0.4 ± 0.11 ^b	63.3 ± 2.06 ^b	1.2 ± 0.28 ^b	14.5 ± 2.29 ^b
MA (1910)	22.8 ± 2.66 ^b	27.1 ± 2.65 ^a	13.7 ± 1.75 ^a	1.1 ± 0.41 ^b	1.6 ± 0.81 ^a	20.0 ± 2.55 ^b	25.3 ± 3.98 ^b	57.1 ± 3.44 ^a	70.5 ± 2.47 ^c	0.2 ± 0.11 ^b	59.7 ± 2.88 ^b	6.2 ± 1.09 ^c	9.6 ± 1.33 ^c

Abbreviations: NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; PIR, Poverty Income Ratio; SE, standard error; NHW, non-Hispanic White; NHB, non-Hispanic Black; MA, Mexican American.

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Different letters indicate significant differences at p<0.05.

MyPyramid food group recommendations depend on appropriate level of energy, and energy needs vary by activity level, sex and age. For this analysis, the minimum recommendations, which correspond to a sedentary level of activity level, were used and sex-age-specific recommendations were applied prior to generating percentages for each income and race/ethnic group.

Consistent with MyPyramid, dry peas and beans were first allocated to the meat and beans group, with any amount remaining after the meat and beans group recommendation was met counting toward the total vegetables and legumes groups.

Adults of other race/ethnicity (n=649) are excluded from the analysis by race/ethnicity.