{"id":18089,"date":"2021-10-04T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=18089"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:15:35","slug":"americans-eating-more-avocadoes-fewer-fresh-peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/americans-eating-more-avocadoes-fewer-fresh-peaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Eating More Avocados, Fewer Fresh Peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tracks\nhow much food is available each year, on average, for each person in the United\nStates. These reports provide a fascinating snapshot of what Americans are\nlikely to be eating. To determine how much food is available, the USDA tracks\ndomestic production, initial inventories, and imports of a particular food and\nthen subtracts exports and end-of-year inventories. An estimation of food\navailability per person is calculated by dividing the total amount of available\nproduct by the U.S. population. These estimates cannot tell us how much of a\nfood an individual person eats but they can provide an estimate of the amount\nof food available for the average person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     A recent report looks at the years 1970 to\n2019. Over those 50 years, the total amount of fruits available, including\nfresh, canned, frozen, and dried fruit and fruit juice, decreased slightly from\n238 pounds per capita to 236 pounds per capita. The amount of available fresh\nfruit increased and processed fruit (canned, frozen, dried, juice) decreased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     If we only\nconsider fresh fruits, the fruits with the largest increases in availability\nincluded<\/p>\n\n\n\n