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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kranz, Sibylle
• Johns, Lisa
• Johnson, L
• Scheett, Angela
• Hoverson, Bonita
• Payne, Collin

Titel

You are What you Read? Fruit and Vegetable MyPyramid Recommendations are Underrepresented in Sunday Sales Circulars

Ist Teil von

• The FASEB journal, 2011-04, Vol.25 (S1), p.989.25-989.25

Ort / Verlag

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Population studies consistently show that Americans fail to meet MyPyramid recommendations for fruits (whole, not juice) and vegetables. Some age and gender groups approach recommendations for fruit intake (mostly through consumption of fruit juice) and most Americans underconsume vegetables. We investigated potential causes for the consistent lack of fruit and vegetable intake by examining a local grocery store chain's weekly, printed Sunday advertisements. Fruits and vegetables were categorized as canned, dried, fresh, fried, or frozen. Results showed that of the total food items advertised (n=9,216), vegetables ads (n=818) accounted for 6.8–10.3% of all ads every month. The types of vegetables advertised during the year were: 27.9% canned, 2.3% dried, 50.6% fresh, 1.1% fried, and 18.1% frozen. No seasonal pattern was observed. In a given month, the most frequent ad was for fresh vegetables (59%). In contrast, ads for fruits (n=631) represented 6.1–7.8% of total ads with 41.8% canned, 2.8% dried, 51.0% fresh, and 4.3% frozen. More ads were observed for fresh fruits in June, July, and August (highest observed frequency: 65.3%). Overall, we found that two of the most underconsumed food groups in the US are dramatically underrepresented in weekly advertisement flyers, which might contribute to low consumption.