Interview component of survey 'What we eat in America'. These are extracted from the 2015–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/Default.aspx) report and consist of the total nutrients for all food and beverage intake ingested over a 24 hours period.
Format
A data frame with 9544 rows and 38 variables:
protproteins (in grams)
carbcarbonhydrate (in gram)
sugrtotal sugars (in gram)
fibedietary fibers (in grams)
tfattotal fat (in grams)
sfatsaturated fat (in grams)
mfatmonounsaturated fat (in grams)
pfatpolyunsaturated fat (in grams)
cholcholesterol (in milligrams)
atocvitamin E as alpha-tocopherol (in milligrams)
retretinol (in micrograms)
varaVitamin A as retinol activity equivalents (in micrograms).
acaralpha-carotene (in micrograms)
bcarbeta-carotene (in micrograms)
crypbeta-cryptoxanthin (in micrograms)
lycolycopene (in micrograms)
lzlutein and zeaxanthin (in micrograms).
vb1thiamin (vitamin B1, in milligrams)
vb2riboflavin (vitamin B2, in milligrams)
niacniacin (in milligrams)
vb6vitamin B5 (in milligrams)
folatotal folate (in micrograms)
fafolic acid (in micrograms)
fffood folate (in micrograms)
chltotal choline (in milligrams)
vb12vitamin B12 (in micrograms)
vcvitamin C (in milligrams)
vdvitamin D (comprising D2 and D3, in micrograms)
vkvitamin K (in micrograms)
calccalcium (in milligrams)
phosphosphorus (in milligrams)
magnmagnesium (in milligrams)
ironiron (in milligrams)
zinczinc (in milligrams)
coppcopper (in milligrams)
sodisodium (in milligrams)
potapotassium (in milligrams)
seleselenium (in micrograms)
Source
National Center for Health Statistics, now available from the Wayback Machine via https://web.archive.org/web/20201029113801/https://wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Nhanes/2015-2016/DR1TOT_I.XPT
Details
Note that the sample design oversampled specific population targets and that only respondants are provided. The website contains more information about sampling weights. There are multiple missing records.
Note
These data are subject to a data user agreement, available at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/policy/data-user-agreement.html