Period: October 2004
Questions: On average, how many days do you eat fruit within a week? On the day(s) that you have eaten fruit, how many fruits do you eat? A fruit equals to a medium-sized apple or orange, a banana, two small fruits such as apricot or plum, or one bowl of small fruits like grapes or strawberries.
On average, how many days do you eat vegetables within a week? On the day(s) that you have eaten vegetables, how many bowls of vegetables do you eat? One bowl refers to the size of a rice bowl.
| Servings of fruit and vegetables per day* | Male Number (%) |
Female Number (%) |
Overall Number (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 5 | 856 (86.2%) | 862 (78.7%) | 1 718 (82.3%) |
| 5 or more | 137 (13.8%) | 233 (21.3%) | 370 (17.7%) |
| Total | 993 (100.0%) | 1 095 (100.0%) | 2 088 (100.0%) |