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Table 3 The most consumed items, vegetables and fruit by farmers from a Brazilian region

From: Dietary patterns of Brazilian farmers and their relation with sociodemographic, labor, and lifestyle conditions

Food items

% (n)

All foods

 Coffee

99.2 (734)

 Rice

99.2 (734)

 Beans

97.6 (722)

 Poultry meat

93.5 (692)

 Sugar

93.1 (689)

 Butter and margarine

87.7 (649)

 Homemade bread

86.9 (643)

 Oils

84.7 (627)

 Pasta

78.1 (578)

 Tomato

64.9 (480)

 Potato

63.2 (468)

 Pork

60.4 (447)

 Lard

49.1 (363)

 Beef

48.0 (355)

 Eggs

45.3 (335)

 Juice

43.8 (324)

 Soda

43.7 (323)

 Milk

39.1 (289)

 Flour

38.5 (285)

Vegetables

 Tomato

64.9 (480)

 Green condiment

32.8 (243)

 Lettuce

30.1 (223)

 Cabbage

25.4 (188)

 Cucumber

20.8 (154)

 Carrot

15.3 (113)

 Chayote

13.1 (97)

 Pepper

10 (74)

 Okra

9.9 (73)

 Green leafy vegetables

8.5 (63)

 Scarlet eggplant

8.4 (62)

 Pumpkin

5.3 (39)

 Pod

5.1 (38)

Fruit

 Banana

14.7 (109)

 Lemon

14.1 (104)

 Apple

11.4 (84)

 Guava

8.1 (60)

 Mango

7.4 (55)

 Grape

6.2 (46)

 Watermelon

6.1 (45)

 Peach

5.7 (42)

  1. Relative and absolute frequency. N = 740