Australia: distribution of children meeting daily fruit intake by age 2021

In 2018, 97.4 percent of children aged 2 to 3 years old in Australia had an adequate fruit intake. The proportion of children eating enough fruit per day drops off significantly in the older age groups and by the age of 17 over 40 percent of children are not getting their recommended daily intake of fruit.

Share of children who meet recommendations for daily fruit intake in Australia in financial year 2021, by age group

Characteristic	Met fruit consumption recommendation	Did not meet fruit consumption recommendation
2–3	93.8%	5.3%
4–8	69.4%	30.9%
9–11	56.8%	43.2%
12–13	59.2%	40.5%
14-17	44.2%	55.7%

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

August 2020 to June 2021

Number of respondents

11,110 respondents

Age group

2-17 years

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Recommended serves of fruits per day:
Children aged 2-3: 1 serve.
Children aged 4-8: 1.5 serves.
Children aged 9-18: 2 serves.
One serve corresponds to approximately 150 grams of fresh fruit or 50 grams of dried fruit.
Fruit juice was excluded from the data.
Figures have been estimated by the source.
Percentage points not equalling 100 percent are probably due to rounding.

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