Per capita versus adult-equivalent estimates of calorie availability in household budget surveys

Abstract

Abstract

Effect of home vegetable gardening on the household availability of fruits and vegetables

“…In the present study, combined with the planting of herb or vegetable seeds and seedlings, the exposure of families to the actions carried out in schools and healthcare services (CHW visits with comments about fruit ad vegetable) produced an effect able to increase household availability of fruit and vegetable by eight percentage points. To better contextualize the magnitude of this effect, since the average relative participation of fruit and vegetable in the total calories acquired by Brazilian families in 2008-2009 was 2.8% [22], more than half of the population could meet the recommendation if there was an effect similar to that found in the present study; the total fruit and vegetable calories would change from 2.8% to 10.8%. This does not mean that the same actions carried out in this intervention would be able to produce similar effects on other circumstances and contexts, but an effect of such magnitude would be at least desirable to meet the WHO recommendations, considering the Brazilian situation described in the last Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (Family Budget Survey) [22].…”

“…The total amount of fruit and vegetable corrected for the total edible parts [19][20][21] was divided by the total adult equivalent units [22] to calculate the amount of fruit and vegetable per adult equivalent available in the household.…”

Public Report on Health: Development of a Nutritive Value Calculator for Indian Foods and Analysis of Food Logs and Nutrient Intake in 6 States

“…Another method would have been to divide the family consumption by adult equivalent estimates of the number of people partaking of food from the kitchen [18]. However this technique would not be suitable for estimating the actual differences in intake of men and women in the household.…”

Aquisição domiciliar de refrigerantes e de biscoitos reduz o efeito de uma intervenção de promoção de frutas e hortaliças

“…O uso do total de unidades de adulto-equivalente que compõem a família, conforme proposto por Claro et al 36 , foi adotado para evitar que o consumo alimentar esperado de uma criança ou adolescente fosse igualado ao de um adulto. Esse procedimento permitiu contornar a subestimação da disponibilidade intradomiciliar per capita de alimentos decorrente da composição familiar, que é esperada nos casos em que há crianças na família, como neste estudo.…”