Food Consumption Trends in Japanese Children and Adolescents: The National Health and Nutrition Survey, 2001-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While unhealthy dietary trends, such as elevated confectionery consumption and decreased fruit intake, have been documented in adults, the longitudinal patterns of food consumption during childhood remain inadequately characterized. This study aimed to describe national trends in food group intakes among children and adolescents in Japan.

Methods

Data on participants aged 1-19 years in the National Health and Nutrition Survey from 2001 to 2019 (n = 37,072) were used in this study. A 1-day, semi-weighed, household-based dietary record was used to assess dietary intake.

Results

Decreasing trends in the intakes of animal-based foods, potatoes and starches, sugars and sweeteners, fruits (annual percentage change [APC] range: -5.04 to -0.62), algae, fish

SUBMITTER: Shinsugi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12027389 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature