Table 2.

Processed Meat and Red Meat, Consumer Spending (2016) and Intake (2015‐2016)

	Spendinga		Intake
Type of Meat	$ Millions	% of Protein Category	Mean Grams per Day	% of Protein Category
Processed meat	1,812	22.82	26.66	10.2
Luncheon meat	435	5.48	10.47	4.4
Sausage	386	4.86	6.50	2.3
Bacon	307	3.86	1.23	0.5
Ham	288	3.63	2.51	0.9
Hot dog	192	2.41	2.51	1.0
Smoked/dried meat	53	0.67	1.10	0.4
Other processed meat	151	1.91	2.34	0.8
Red meat	2,046	25.80	40.53	16.1
Beef	1,580	19.91	24.55	10.6
Pork	467	5.89	7.68	2.9
Other	n/a	n/a	1.24	0.4
Unspecified	n/a	n/a	7.06	2.2

Data derived from US Department of Agriculture (2016)68 and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.69

^aFood and Nutrition Service spending estimates are from scanner data for a single supermarket chain (not identified).