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Foods such as fruit, vegetables, and cereals, and particularly whole grain, are
rich in dietary fibre and have been proved to have multiple beneficial effects
for the human health. The present research was designed to assess some eating
practices related to fibre-rich foods in different countries, namely Argentina,
Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, and Romania. A cross-sectional descriptive
study was undertaken on a sample of 4905 adult participants, obeying all
ethical guidelines for this type of research. Regarding the data treatment, basic
statistics was complemented with the tree classification analysis. Generally, the
results show a low consumption of salads and vegetables, i.e., up to 11
servings/week (for 78.2% of participants), with Croatia in the lead (86.6%).
Regarding fruit, a great majority of data also indicated low consumption
(92.3%), most especially for Latvia (98.3%). The level of consumption of
whole cereals was also low (72.6%), particularly for Latvia (90.0%). The tree
classification analysis showed that while the first discriminant variable for the
consumption of salads and vegetables was country, followed by education, for
the consumption of fruit, it was country and then sex, and finally, for the
consumption of whole cereals, it was sex and followed by country. The results
allowed the conclusion that the consumption of foods rich in dietary fibre was
very low for these countries, highlighting the necessity to implement strategies
that incentivise the consumption of such foods, which are very important for a
healthy diet.
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Keywords
healthy diet fruit survey vegetable whole cereal
Citation
Guiné RPF, Florença SG, Leal M, Rumbak I, Barić I, Komes D, Satalić Z, Sarić M, Tarcea M, Fazakas Z, Szűcs V, Harangozó J, Klava D, Straumite E (2020) Consumption of fibre rich foods: comparative study in different countries. Croatian Journal of Food Science and Technology, 12(1), 67– 76