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The basics

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

About what share of U.S. adults meet the recommended daily intake of vegetables?

Answerabout 10.0%

Even fewer adults meet the vegetable target than the fruit target nationwide.

Source: CDC (MMWR) (2019) cdc.gov

Going deeper

About what share of the U.S. food supply is wasted at the retail and consumer level?

Answerabout 31%

That waste equaled roughly 133 billion pounds of food in a single year.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service (2010) usda.gov

About how many Americans get sick from foodborne illness each year?

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

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