Table 3.

Estimated diet costs in $/2,000 kcal/d of existing diets and dietary components in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2013–14) by race/ethnicity.

	All (N = 7,967)		Hispanic (N = 2,106)		Black (N = 1,743)		White (N = 3,002)		Asian (N = 773)		Other (N = 343)
N =	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM
Vegetables, dark green	0.04	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.05	0.01	0.04	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.02	0.01
Vegetables, red, and orange	0.06	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.04	0.01	0.07	0.00	0.06	0.01	0.05	0.01
Legumes (beans and peas)	0.02	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.03	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.04	0.01	0.02	0.01
Starchy vegetables	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Other vegetables	0.16	0.01	0.13	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.18	0.01	0.15	0.02	0.11	0.02
Fruits	0.38	0.01	0.42	0.03	0.31	0.02	0.36	0.01	0.60	0.03	0.35	0.05
Grains, whole	0.09	0.00	0.06	0.01	0.06	0.00	0.09	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.01
Grains, refined	0.20	0.00	0.18	0.01	0.19	0.01	0.20	0.01	0.29	0.03	0.17	0.02
Dairy	0.41	0.01	0.36	0.02	0.25	0.01	0.47	0.01	0.39	0.03	0.32	0.04
Seafood	0.30	0.04	0.22	0.04	0.44	0.08	0.27	0.04	0.55	0.08	0.46	0.22
Meat, poultry, eggs	0.70	0.03	0.79	0.04	0.81	0.06	0.66	0.03	0.78	0.07	0.57	0.07
Nuts, seeds, soy	0.10	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.06	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.14	0.02	0.12	0.04
Oils	0.04	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.03	0.00
Other	3.30	0.05	3.07	0.07	3.09	0.09	3.41	0.07	3.33	0.13	3.20	0.23
Total cost in $/d	5.82	0.07	5.47	0.11	5.48	0.16	5.94	0.09	6.57	0.20	5.51	0.37

Data are for persons >2 years with exclusions for pregnant or lactating females.

Presented are means and standard errors (SEM).