How diverse is the diet of adult South Africans?

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Mean dietary diversity score (DDS) and percent of adults having consumed an item from the food groups, by province

	Province									RSA
	Western Cape	Eastern Cape	Northern Cape	Free State	KwaZulu- Natal	North West	Gauteng	Mpumalanga	Limpopo	All
Sample size	441	446	228	241	630	136	613	246	306	3287
Mean DDS 95% CI ^a	4.78 [A] 4.66 - 4.90	3.38[E][F] 3.22 - 3.54	4.05 [B][C][D] 3.85 - 4.26	4.40[B] 4.23 - 4.58	3.97 [C][D] 3.81 - 4.12	3.72 [D][E] 3.43 - 4.01	4.22 [C][B] 4.08 - 4.36	4.14 [C][B] 3.95 - 4.33	3.24 [F] 3.03 - 3.45	4.02 3.96 - 4.07
Percent of adults consuming at least one item from the following groups (CI^a):
1.Cereals/roots/tubers	99^b	100	99	100	100	100	100	100	100	99.7
	98 - 100	99 - 100	98 - 100	99 - 100	100 - 100	100-100	100-100	99-100	99 - 100	99.5-99.9
2.Vitamin A-rich fruit and vegetables	14	16	14	26	12	21	20	22	14	17
	10 - 18	12 - 20	11 - 18	21 - 32	9 - 15	14 - 29	16 - 23	17 - 27	9 - 18	15 - 18
3.Other fruit-not vitamin A-rich	23	15	0.23	31	28	18	38	15	18	25
	18 - 27	12 - 19	18 - 29	26 - 37	24 - 32	11 - 0.25	34 - 0.43	10 - 20	14 - 22	24 - 27
4.Other vegetables- not vitamin A-rich	69	48	57	49	41	40	51	70	49	52
	64 - 74	43 - 52	49 - 65	41 - 57	35 - 47	32 - 48	47 - 56	66 - 75	41 - 57	50 - 54
5.Legumes & nuts	20	24	11	14	25	10	15	15	8	18
	16 -25	21 - 27	7 - 14	9 - 19	22 - 29	5 - 14	0.12 - 0.18	0.10 - 0.19	5 - 12	16 - 19
6.Fats & oils	66	21	40	43	39	30	28	56	26	38
	61 -70	18 - 25	33 - 47	35 - 52	34 - 45	19 - 41	24 - 0.31	48 - 65	19 - 32	36 - 40
7. Meat/poultry/fish	87	54	89	83	77	80	88	76	73	78
	83 -91	49 - 58	85 - 94	77 - 90	73 - 80	72 - 88	85 - 91	71 - 81	67 - 79	77 - 80
8.Dairy	77	44	58	72	59	55	64	42	24	56
	72 - 81	39 - 49	51 - 64	66 - 78	54 - 64	47 - 0.64	60 - 68	34 - 0.49	17 -30	55 -58
9. Eggs	24	17	14	22	16	18	18	19	13	18
	20 - 28	13 - 21	9 - 18	17 - 27	12 - 19	10 - 25	15 - 22	14 - 23	9 - 16	16 - 19

^aCI = Confidence interval selected because of data being stratified;
^b % of people consumed from the cereal group
[A]; [B], [C],[D],[E],[F]: different symbols indicate which mean DDS (comparing the nine provinces) are significantly different, Bonferroni multiple comparison test, p < 0.05

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