TABLE 4.

Frequency of food-group consumption by households of participants surveyed for urinary iodine concentration¹

Food group	Women (15–49 y)2	Children (6–11 y)3
	%	%
Cereals	96.9	95.9
Dark-green leafy vegetables	16.1	15.7
Eggs	3.2	4.7
Fish	9.2	9.5
Flesh meat4	44.5	48.7
Legumes, nuts, and seeds	26.6	25.8
Milk and milk products	64.9	64.4
Oils or fats	88.9	89.7
Organ meat	6.6	6.5
Other fruits	20.7	21.0
Other vegetables	36.5	33.0
Spices or caffeine	39.9	39.1
Sweets	82.9	84.5
Vitamin A–rich fruits	8.9	10.0
Vitamin A–rich vegetables	11.1	12.3
White tubers or roots	28.4	29.8

¹Values shown represent frequency of household food-group consumption in the day before the survey.

²Sample size varied between n = 587 and n = 604 for each food group.

³Sample size varied between n = 717 and n = 734 for each food group.

⁴Flesh meat is any meat that does not include organs.