Data and Statistics

These data are from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a random-digit telephone survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments.

What is BRFSS?
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people. Generally, questions relate to personal behaviors that increase risk for one or more of the ten leading causes of death in the United States. For the 5 A Day Program, survey participants were asked their average daily frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption.

The research tool below allows you to compare fruit and vegetable consumption nationwide to your state or compare your state to another state by year.  It also allows you to compare fruit and vegetable consumption by different groupings such as BMI, physical activity, age, education, income, race, and gender. It also allows you to view trends over time.

What is your average frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption per day?

What is the average frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption per day for the nation or your particular state? Show fruit and vegetable consumption for NationwideAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaVirgin IslandsWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming in 2002200019981996 grouped by No Grouping AgeBody Mass IndexEducationGenderIncomePhysical ActivityRace

Compare fruit and vegetable consumption in your state to that of the nation as a whole or to an individual state. Show fruit and vegetable consumption comparing NationwideAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaVirgin IslandsWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming to NationwideAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaVirgin IslandsWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming in 2002200019981996 grouped by No Grouping AgeBody Mass IndexEducationGenderIncomePhysical ActivityRace

Compare fruit and vegetable consumption in your state or the nation by a specific year. Show fruit and vegetable consumption comparing 2002200019981996 to 2002200019981996 for NationwideAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaVirgin IslandsWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming grouped by No Grouping AgeBody Mass IndexEducationGenderIncomePhysical Activity

What is the average frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption per day for all 50 states? Show fruit and vegetable consumption for all states in 2002200019981996

Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Online Prevalence Data, 1995-2002.

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This page last updated April 2, 2002

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity