TABLE 2.

Frequency of food intake¹

		Intake frequency, %
Food class	n	Each meal	≥Daily	>Weekly	Weekly	>Monthly	Monthly	<Monthly	Never
Meat
Red meat, nonpork	2027	39	46	14	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Pork	2005	2	11	38	15	11	9	8	7
Poultry	2007	0.5	2	20	18	18	14	19	8
Seafood, fish	2015	0.5	3	17	19	19	15	19	7
Seafood, nonfish	2014	0.1	0.7	8	11	16	17	27	20
Organ meat	2017	1	5	18	18	14	10	14	20
Processed meats	2020	0.1	3	16	11	16	12	20	22
Dairy
Eggs	2023	7	37	33	4	5	4	4	5
Dairy, nonmilk	2023	7	36	24	5	7	4	5	11
Dairy, milk	2009	0.9	8	6	2	4	4	10	65
Nuts	2020	0.1	1	5	3	5	8	14	64
Fruits/vegetables
Vegetables, nonstarchy	2021	0.0	0.5	2	3	3	5	17	69
Vegetables, starchy	2024	0.0	0.1	1	2	2	4	17	74
Legumes	2018	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	1	9	89
Fruit	2018	0.1	0.7	2	2	3	6	20	66
Grains	2016	0.0	0.1	0.6	1	2	4	14	79
Sugars
Sugar	2017	0.0	0.7	1.0	1	2	4	13	78
Honey	2013	0.1	1	2	2	3	4	14	74
Noncalorie sweeteners	2017	0.7	9	7	3	4	4	8	65
Miscellaneous
Exceptions2	2027	0.3	1	5	9	10	11	31	33
Multivitamin usage	1988	0.7	8	3	1	1	0.9	4	80
Other vitamin usage	1706	2	29	11	2	3	1	5	47

¹Participants were asked to report intake frequency of the listed food groups and items on an 8-point scale. For visualization, the response frequencies are color-coded dark gray if ≥70%, with increasing brightness if 40%–69%, 20%–39%, 10%–19%, 5%–9%, 1%–4%, and <1%.

²Frequency of making exceptions from the carnivore diet.