New Report on America’s Eating Habits

Tomato, Moz­zarella and Basil Salad by Flickr user su-lin

The US Depart­ment of Agriculture’s Eco­nomic Research Ser­vice has just released a report that offers some inter­est­ing data about what Amer­i­cans have been eat­ing for the last ten years. Many will be happy to hear that red meat con­sump­tion is down, but unfor­tu­nately fruits and veg­gies have suf­fered the same fate.

Amer­i­cans are eat­ing a lit­tle less beef and pork, but more poul­try. They like their cheese, but drink less fluid milk. Yogurt con­sump­tion is up, ice cream con­sump­tion is down. And, per­haps sur­pris­ingly, total fruit and veg­etable con­sump­tion per capita has actu­ally dipped despite what gen­er­ally seems to be health­ier eat­ing habits.

All these con­clu­sions are based on the lat­est look at Amer­i­can con­sump­tion of food com­modi­ties by the US Depart­ment of Agriculture’s Eco­nomic Research Ser­vice (ERS) over a ten-year period from 1998 through 2007…. cont.

I’d have to say that a few of these reflect my own dietary changes over that period (more yogurt, less ice cream, more seafood.) Does this data reflect your own eat­ing habits?

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