This report provides the latest estimates by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on the amount and value of food … loss in the United States. These estimates are for more than 200 individual foods using ERS’s Loss-Adjusted Food … Availability data. In 2010, an estimated 31 percent or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds of food produced was not …

Consumer demand for food is an important component of the structure within which various agricultural policies have … been formulated. To provide a model for food consumption forecasts and analyses of food program effects, a complete set of … food demand relationships consisting of direct-and cross-price elasticities, and expenditure (income) a1asticities was …

Recent studies show that average diets differ considerably from Food Guide Pyramid recommendations. The gap between … vegetables, notably dark-green leafy and deep-yellow vegetables, and dry beans, peas, and lentils. The change in food consumption … needed to meet Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations will result in adjustments in U.S. agricultural production, trade …

This report examines major trends in the amount of food available for consumption in the United States between 1970 and … 2005 using data from the ERS Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System. The report also estimates whether Americans are … meeting Federal dietary recommendations for each of the major food groups by comparing the data with dietary recommendations …

Most American diets do not meet Federal Food Guide Pyramid dietary recommendations. On average, people consume too many … whole grains compared with a reference set of Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations appropriate to the age and gender … caloric sweeteners also reached a 27-year high. This report is the first dietary assessment to use ERSís time-series food …

Household access to food over time in Tanzania is measured by comparing the cost of representative food baskets to … starch such as cassava and banana. The food baskets include 15 food groups that make up approximately 67 to 88 percent of … average calorie intake. From 2008/09 to 2010/11, food basket costs rose rapidly in nominal terms but were stable in real terms …

policy issues: from biofuels to food consumption to land conservation to patterns of trade for agricultural products. What …

A certain amount of food in supermarkets is deemed unusable (“food loss”) because of moisture loss, spoilage, and other … causes. This study analyzed updated food loss estimates for fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, and seafood obtained … new estimates, when incorporated into the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data, had little impact on aggregate per …

Food prepared away from home (FAFH)—whether eaten in restaurants, fast-food and\r other locations, or as take-out or … delivery to be eaten at home—is now a routine part of the diets of most Americans, accounting for 41 percent of food … food consumption surveys (one conducted in 1977-78 and another in 2005-08) to assess changes in the consumption and …