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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013 Jul 17;113(9):1165–1174. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2013.05.013

Table 3.

Proportion of high school students reporting fruit and vegetable intake of ≥1, ≥2, and ≥3 servings/day calculated from 24-hour dietary recall interviews and times/day calculated from two sets of survey questions (n=610)

Total Fruit Intake (%)
Total Vegetable Intake (%)
≥1 ≥2 ≥3 ≥1 ≥2 ≥3
24-h dietary recall interviewsa
Overall 42.8 16.0   4.8 53.7   9.6   1.2
Female 41.3 14.2   3.8 47.5   6.7   0.7
Male 44.0 17.6   5.8 60.2 12.8   1.9
White 34.0 10.3   2.5 60.3 12.3   1.8
Black 43.2 17.3   5.9 37.7   3.8   0.3
Hispanic 54.5 22.7   7.4 61.3 12.5   1.6
9th 40.4 14.1   4.0 38.8   4.4   0.4
10th 47.0 17.9   5.4 61.4 13.6   2.0
11th 38.6 13.1   3.2 55.5 10.1   1.3
12th 46.6 19.2   6.3 61.6 12.6   1.7
Set 1: Past 7-dayb
Overall 73.3 44.3 28.4 64.2 32.3 17.1
Female 73.4 42.8 26.3 65.6 33.8 17.5
Male 72.9 45.4 30.5 62.3 30.5 16.8
White 70.8 42.0 22.8 73.5 37.0 18.3
Black 77.5 43.7 32.5 56.8 29.7 17.6
Hispanic 75.4 49.1 34.7 54.5 28.9 17.5
9th 70.1 44.1 30.5 66.9 34.3 18.3
10th 77.2 46.3 26.8 62.6 30.9 17.1
11th 75.4 45.2 29.4 62.1 32.3 21.8
12th 71.3 41.5 35.1 62.9 30.6 12.4
Set 2: Yesterdayc
Overall 79.0 59.1 37.0 78.4 54.6 31.7
Female 76.3 56.0 37.3 77.7 54.7 31.7
Male 81.4 62.4 37.2 79.2 54.3 31.1
White 76.6 55.0 27.1 83.0 55.5 31.7
Black 79.1 62.2 43.2 71.2 49.3 28.8
Hispanic 49.8 62.0 46.0 76.2 52.4 29.3
9th 76.7 57.6 38.4 84.3 54.4 33.7
10th 85.0 67.5 42.5 78.3 56.7 34.2
11th 77.0 59.5 38.1 75.2 53.6 30.4
12th 77.6 54.1 31.8 74.7 51.2 27.1
a

Adjusted for within-person variation, using methods described by Tooze et al.24

b

Fruit intake was assessed with two questions that asked the number of times during the past 7 days that the student drank 100% fruit juice and ate fruit. Vegetable intake assessed with four questions that asked the number of times during the past 7 days that the student ate green salad, carrots, potatoes (not counting French fries, fried potatoes, or potato chips), and other vegetables.

c

Fruit intake assessed with two questions that asked the number of times yesterday that the student drank 100% fruit juice and ate fruit. Vegetable intake assessed with four questions that asked the number of times yesterday that the student ate green salad, carrots, potatoes (not counting French fries, fried potatoes, or potato chips), and other vegetables.