The contribution of subsidized food commodities to total energy intake among US adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The contribution of subsidized food commodities to total food consumption is unknown. We estimated the proportion of individual energy intake from food commodities receiving the largest subsidies from 1995 to 2010 (corn, soyabeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock).

Design

Integrating information from three federal databases (MyPyramid Equivalents, Food Intakes Converted to Retail Commodities, and What We Eat in America) with data from the 2001-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, we computed a Subsidy Score representing the percentage of total energy intake from subsidized commodities. We examined the score's distribution and the probability of having a 'high' (≥70th percentile) v. 'low' (≤30th percentile) score, across the population a

SUBMITTER: Siegel KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270992 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature