TABLE 1. Median consumption and percentages of high school students meeting U.S. Department of Agriculture fruit and vegetable* intake recommendations — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, national and 33 states, 2017.
| State | No.§ | Median times per day |
Percentage meeting recommendations† |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit |
Vegetable |
||||
| Fruit | Vegetable | % (95% CI) | % (Upper 95% CL)¶ | ||
|
National
|
13,354
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
7.1 (4.0–10.3)
|
2.0 (7.9)
|
| Alaska |
1,239 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
5.6 (1.9–9.3) |
2.3 (8.8) |
| Arizona |
1,936 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
4.8 (1.4–8.2) |
1.2 (7.4) |
| Arkansas |
1,376 |
0.7 |
0.9 |
7.6 (3.4–11.9) |
3.6 (11.4) |
| California |
1,640 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
6.1 (2.7–9.4) |
1.8 (8.0) |
| Connecticut |
2,109 |
0.9 |
1.2 |
4.0 (0.8–7.2) |
1.0 (7.1) |
| Florida |
5,644 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
7.4 (4.1–10.7) |
2.2 (8.6) |
| Hawaii |
5,174 |
0.7 |
1.0 |
4.4 (1.4–7.5) |
1.7 (7.5) |
| Idaho |
1,729 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
5.2 (1.7–8.7) |
1.3 (7.4) |
| Illinois |
4,331 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
5.4 (1.9–9.0) |
1.3 (7.5) |
| Iowa |
1,552 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
5.4 (1.5–9.2) |
1.4 (7.7) |
| Kansas |
2,288 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
4.2 (0.8–7.6) |
0.6 (6.7) |
| Kentucky |
1,867 |
0.7 |
0.9 |
5.0 (1.6–8.4) |
1.0 (7.0) |
| Louisiana |
1,070 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
9.3 (5.1–13.5) |
1.9 (8.7) |
| Maryland |
43,802 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
5.6 (2.7–8.4) |
1.2 (7.2) |
| Massachusetts |
2,998 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
5.2 (1.8–8.6) |
1.1 (7.2) |
| Michigan |
1,506 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
5.8 (1.8–9.7) |
1.6 (8.0) |
| Missouri |
1,648 |
0.7 |
1.0 |
4.8 (1.4–8.1) |
1.0 (7.1) |
| Montana |
4,475 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
4.6 (1.2–7.9) |
1.6 (7.6) |
| Nebraska |
1,306 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
4.5 (0.9–8.0) |
1.0 (7.3) |
| New Mexico |
5,333 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
7.5 (4.5–10.6) |
3.7 (10.1) |
| North Carolina |
2,837 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
6.1 (2.6–9.6) |
1.2 (7.4) |
| North Dakota |
2,009 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
5.3 (1.5–9.0) |
1.4 (7.4) |
| Oklahoma |
1,526 |
0.7 |
0.9 |
4.9 (1.6–8.3) |
1.1 (7.2) |
| Pennsylvania |
3,344 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
5.7 (2.2–9.1) |
1.1 (7.2) |
| Rhode Island |
2,017 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
5.9 (2.5–9.3) |
2.2 (8.7) |
| South Carolina |
1,310 |
0.7 |
0.9 |
7.0 (2.9–11.1) |
0.9 (7.3) |
| Tennessee |
1,894 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
6.3 (2.5–10.0) |
1.6 (7.9) |
| Texas |
1,955 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
6.0 (2.9–9.0) |
1.6 (7.9) |
| Utah |
1,712 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
4.6 (1.2–8.1) |
1.7 (7.9) |
| Vermont |
19,126 |
1.0 |
1.4 |
5.6 (2.4–8.9) |
2.0 (7.9) |
| Virginia |
3,431 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
5.5 (2.1–8.8) |
1.7 (7.9) |
| West Virginia |
1,414 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
6.8 (3.1–10.6) |
1.5 (7.5) |
| Wisconsin | 1,894 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 4.6 (1.0–8.3) | 1.2 (7.5) |
Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; CL = confidence limit.
* Fruit consists of solid fruit and 100% fruit juice. Vegetable consists of green salad, potatoes (excluding French fries, fried potatoes, and potato chips), carrots, and other vegetables.
† Minimum daily intake recommendations for adolescents aged 14–18 years are: 1.5 cups of fruit and 2.5 cups of vegetables for females, and 2 cups of fruit and 3 cups of vegetables for males, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Additional information available at https://www.choosemyplate.gov/eathealthy/vegetables and https://www.choosemyplate.gov/eathealthy/fruits. Previously established scoring algorithms, developed using 24-hour recall data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, were used to predict whether students met recommendations for their age and sex based on the number of times per day they reported consuming fruits and vegetables, separately, and accounting for race/ethnicity.
§ Number of respondents aged 14–18 years with complete data for fruit and vegetable intake and demographic information.
¶ One-sided 95% CLs (i.e., upper bound only) are presented because of low prevalence of percentage meeting vegetable recommendations and CIs that include zero.