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. 2021 Nov 12;55(Suppl 1):8s. doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2021055003437

Box 1. Food groups and items. National Dietary Surveys 2008–2009 and 2017–2018.

Food groups Food items
Rice Rice, brown rice, rice-based preparations, corn and corn-based preparations and other cereals.
Beans Beans, green beans/rope, bean-based preparations, meat substitutes and other legumes.
Leafy vegetables Lettuce, kale, cabbage, raw salad and other leafy vegetables.
Vegetables Pumpkin, carrots, chayote, cucumber, tomatoes and other vegetables.
Roots and tubers Sweet potatoes, English potatoes, cassava and other tubers.
Fruits Pineapple, açaí , banana, orange, apple, papaya, mango, watermelon, tangerine, grape, dried fruit, other fruits and oilseeds.
Flour and pasta Cassava flour, farofa , pasta, instant noodles, noodles and noodle-based preparations.
Breads Salt bread (bread roll, water bread, hamburger bread, wheat bread, salt bread, unspecified bread, unspecified white bread, cacetinho, careca, ciabatta, bisnaguinha, Croissant , industrialized loaf bread, of corn, toast, sweet toast, brioche, Arabic, for wrap , gluten-free, potato, homemade, bread with butter and bread with margarine) and wholemeal salt bread (Australian, rye, black, whole, whole Arabic, whole cacetinho , whole careca , wholerye, whole salt, whole wheat, whole roll, rye toast and whole toast).
Cakes and cookies Breakfast cereals, baked sweets, cakes, stuffed cakes, sweet biscuits, savory biscuits, stuffed biscuits, snacks, chips and breads, cakes and biscuits diet/light.
Meat Beef, beef preparations, pork, poultry, poultry preparations, fresh fish, preserved fish, salted fish, other fish, fish preparations, salted meat, other types of meat, sausage, sausage, mortadella, ham, other cold cuts and offal.
Eggs Eggs and egg-based preparations.
Dairy products Whole milk, skimmed milk, milk-based preparations, vitamins, cheeses, yoghurts, other dairy products and dairy products diet/light.
Sweets Chocolates, chocolates powder, milk-based sweets, peanut-based sweets, fruit-based sweets, ice cream/popsicles, other sweets and sweets diet/light.
Oils and fats Oils and fats (coconut milk, mayonnaise – sauce –, bacon, olives, butter with or without salt, bottle butter, margarine with or without salt, bacon, olive oil, soy oil, corn oil, coconut oil, crackling, pork lard, beef lard, palm oil and unspecified oil) and oils and fats light (mayonnaise - sauce - light, margarine light, butter with or without salt light and coconut milk light).
Beverages Juices, soft drinks/industrialized juices, soft drinks/industrialized juices diet/light, dairy drinks, soy-based drinks and other non-alcoholic beverages.
Sodas Soda and diet/light soda.
Coffee and tea Coffee and tea.
Pizzas and snacks Pizzas, fried and baked snacks, sandwiches and savory pies.
Soups and broths Soups and broths.