About what share of U.S. adults meet the recommended daily intake of fruit?
Answerabout 12.3%
Vermont and Connecticut had the highest rates; West Virginia and Kentucky had the lowest.
Source: CDC (MMWR) (2019) cdc.gov
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Answerabout 12.3%
Vermont and Connecticut had the highest rates; West Virginia and Kentucky had the lowest.
Source: CDC (MMWR) (2019) cdc.gov
Answerabout 10.0%
Even fewer adults meet the vegetable target than the fruit target nationwide.
Source: CDC (MMWR) (2019) cdc.gov
Answerabout 31%
That waste equaled roughly 133 billion pounds of food in a single year.
Source: USDA Economic Research Service (2010) usda.gov
Answerabout 48 million
Of those, an estimated 128,000 are hospitalized and about 3,000 die each year.
Source: CDC (via Wikipedia) (2011) en.wikipedia.org