MEAT AND OTHER PROTEINS

Consumption in the US
1970-2014

6
Total Meat +2%

5
Per Capita Consumption,
in oz-equivalent per day.

Red Meat - 28%

3
Poultry +110%
2

1
Nuts +51%
Eggs - 13%
0 Fish +23%
1970 2014

Foods the guidelines Foods the guidelines

recommend to increase recommend to decrease

NOTES: Consumption is calculated by the USDA from food availability, minus an estimation of food loss.

SOURCE: Jeanine Bentley. U.S. Trends in Food Availability and a Dietary Assessment of Loss- Adjusted Food
Availability, 1970-2014, EIB-166, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, January 2017;
chart by Nina Teicholz