. 2020 Sep 1;12(9):2668. doi: 10.3390/nu12092668

Table 4.

Mean intakes of USDA Food Patterns groups by adults 20 years over, grouped by vegetarian dietary pattern, WWEIA, NHANES ¹ 2013–2016, day 1 data.

Variables	Unadjusted Means (SE)		Means Adjusted for Sex, Race-Ethnicity, Poverty Level, and Age (99% CI)
Variables	Vegetarian-Style Dietary Pattern	Nonvegetarian Dietary Pattern	Vegetarian-Style Dietary Pattern	Nonvegetarian Dietary Pattern
Total grains (oz. eq. ²)	6.0 (0.3) ^a	6.5 (0.05) ^a	6.2 (5.5–6.8) ^c	6.5 (6.4–6.6) ^c
Refined grains (oz. eq.)	4.7 (0.2) ^a	5.6 (0.05) ^b	4.9 (4.3–5.4) ^c	5.6 (5.5–5.7) ^d
Whole grains (oz. eq.)	1.3 (0.1) ^a	0.9 (0.03) ^b	1.3 (1.0–1.6) ^c	0.9 (0.8–0.94) ^d
Total vegetables, excluding legumes (cup eq.)	1.5 (0.1) ^a	1.5 (0.03) ^a	1.46 (1.24–1.68) ^c	1.54 (1.47–1.60) ^c
Legumes as vegetables (cup eq.)	0.2 (0.02) ^a	0.1(0.01) ^b	0.20 (0.15–0.25) ^c	0.11 (0.10–0.13) ^d
Nuts, seeds, soy products (oz. eq.)	1.7 (0.2) ^a	0.9 (0.03) ^b	1.7 (1.1–2.2) ^c	0.9 (0.8–0.94) ^d
Total fruit (cup eq. ³)	1.1 (0.1) ^a	0.9 (0.03) ^a	1.1 (0.8–1.3) ^c	0.9 (0.8–1.0) ^c
Intact/whole fruit (cup eq.)	0.9 (0.07) ^a	0.7 (0.02) ^b	0.85 (0.66–1.05) ^c	0.67 (0.61–0.73) ^c
Fruit juice, 100% (cup eq.)	0.2 (0.02) ^a	0.2 (0.01) ^a	0.21 (0.15–0.27) ^c	0.24 (0.22–0.26) ^c
Total dairy (cup eq.)	1.7 (0.08) ^a	1.6 (0.03) ^a	1.7 (1.8–1.9) ^c	1.55 (1.49–1.61) ^c
Fluid milk (cup eq.)	0.7 (0.05) ^a	0.7 (0.02) ^a	0.8 (0.6–0.9) ^c	0.7 (0.6–0.7) ^c
Cheese (cup eq.)	0.7 (0.05) ^a	0.8 (0.02) ^a	0.8 (0.6–0.9) ^c	0.8 (0.7–0.8) ^c
Eggs (oz. eq.)	0.6 (0.06) ^a	0.6 (0.02) ^a	0.6 (0.4–0.8) ^c	0.6 (0.5–0.6) ^c
Total meat, poultry, and seafood (oz. eq.)	--	5.2 (0.1)	--	5.2 (5.0–5.4)
Solid fats (grams)	27 (1.4) ^a	36 (0.4) ^b	29 (25–33) ^c	36 (35–37) ^d
Oils (grams)	26 (1.6) ^a	28 (0.4) ^a	26 (22–31) ^c	28 (27–29) ^c
Added sugars (tsp. eq. ⁴)	14 (0.7) ^a	17 (0.3) ^b	15 (12.9–17.1) ^c	17 (16.4–17.7) ^c

¹ What We Eat in America, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. ² oz. eq. = ounce equivalents; ³ cup eq. = cup equivalents; ⁴ tsp. eq. = teaspoon equivalents. ^a,b Unadjusted means with different superscripts are significantly different from each other at p < 0.01. ^c,d Adjusted means with different superscripts are significantly different from each other at p < 0.01. SE indicates standard error. CI indicates confidence interval.