Growing appetite for chicken as vegetables lose favour
Australians consumed more poultry and fewer vegetables between 1995 and 2011-12, according to figures from the 2011-13 Australian Health Survey released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday.
Director of ABS Health, Louise Gates, said, "Average consumption of the vegetables and legumes/beans fell by 10 per cent, with decreased consumption by teenage and adults age groups of both sexes.
"Although adults aged 51 years and over still consumed more serves of vegetables than younger people, those older adults had the biggest drop in consumption. For example, average daily vegetable intake for 51-70 year olds fell by around one-fifth (5.1 to 4.1 serves per 10,000kJ) and for people aged 71 years and over their consumption fell by one-quarter (5.5 to 4.2 serves per 10,000kJ)."
Between 1995 and 2011-12, average daily consumption of poultry increased by 82 per cent from 0.34 to 0.62 serves per 10,000 kJ. This contributed to a 36 per cent increase in the consumption of the “protein food group” (including lean meat and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans) from 1.6 to 2.1 serves per 10,000 kJ.
Despite the decrease in vegetable consumption, Ms Gates said there were some signs of improvement in Australian’s dietary behaviours.
“Fruit consumption is increasingly being made up of whole fruit rather than juice and the average daily consumption of ‘discretionary’ foods declined from 6.6 to 6.1 serves per 10,000kJ largely thanks to a reduction in sugary drinks, fries/hot chips and pastry products,” Ms Gates said.
How many times do you eat chicken per week? What about vegetables?
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We eat a lot of chicken here in OZ because of the price of other meats. The best stuff gets exported and we have to buy the remainder of lower quality meats.
I believe that the most useful meat is pig because we get pork/ cold hams /deli meats and many other things and the muslims wont buy it keeping the prices low.
Having just returned from a trip through the outback I found that wild goat and wild deer are in plague numbers and should be harvested now.
Go get your own if you want....I use a compound hunting bow.