Children’s and adolescents’ rising animal-source food intakes in 1990–2018 were impacted by age, region, parental education and urbanicity
Victoria Miller, Patrick Webb, Frederick Cudhea, Jianyi Zhang, Julia Reedy, Peilin Shi, Josh Erndt‐Marino, Jennifer Coates, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian, Global Dietary Database, Murat Baş, Jemal Haidar, Suhad Abumweis, Anand Krishnan, Puneet Misra, Nahla Chawkat Hwalla, Chandrashekar Janakiram, Nur Indrawaty Liputo, Abdulrahman O. Musaiger, Farhad Pourfarzi, Iftikhar Alam, Karin DeRidder, Céline Termote, Anjum Memon, Aida Turrini, Elisabetta Lupotto, Raffaela Piccinelli, Stefania Sette, Karim Anzid, Marieke Vossenaar, Paramita Mazumdar, Ingrid Rached, Alicia Rovirosa, María Elisa Zapata, Tamene Taye Asayehu, Francis Oduor, Julia Boedecker, Lilian Aluso, Johana Ortíz‐Ulloa, J.V. Meenakshi, Michelle Alessandra de Castro, Giuseppe Grosso, Anna Waśkiewicz, Umber S. Khan, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Reza Malekzadeh, Neville Calleja, Marga C. Ocké, Zohreh Etemad, Mohannad Al Nsour, Lydiah M. Waswa, Eha Nurk, Joanne E Arsenault, Patricio López‐Jaramillo, Abla Mehio Sibai, Albertino Damasceno, Carukshi Arambepola, Carla Lopes, Mílton Severo, Nuno Lunet, Duarte Torres, Heli Tapanainen, Jaana Lindström, Suvi Μ. Virtanen, Cristina Palacios, Eva Roos, Imelda Angeles‐Agdeppa, Josie Desnacido, Mario V. Capanzana, Anoop Misra, Ilse Khouw, Swee Ai Ng, Edna Gamboa Delgado, Mauricio Caballero, Johanna Otero, Hae‐Jeung Lee, Eda Köksal, Idris Guessous, Carl Lachat, Stefaan De Henauw, Ali Reza Rahbar, Alison Tedstone, Androniki Naska, Angie Mathee, Annie Ling, Bemnet Tedla, Beth Hopping, Brahmam Ginnela, Catherine Leclercq, Charmaine Duante, Christian Haerpfer, Christine Hotz, Christos Pitsavos, Colin D. Rehm, Coline van Oosterhout, Corazon Cerdeña, Debbie Bradshaw, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Dorothy Gauci
Abstract
Animal-source foods (ASF) provide nutrition for children and adolescents' physical and cognitive development. Here, we use data from the Global Dietary Database and Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify global, regional and national ASF intakes between 1990 and 2018 by age group across 185 countries, representing 93% of the world's child population. Mean ASF intake was 1.9 servings per day, representing 16% of children consuming at least three daily servings. Intake was similar between boys and girls, but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 at <1 year to 2.5 servings per day at 15-19 years. Between 1990 and 2018, mean ASF intake increased by 0.5 servings per week, with increases in all regions except sub-Saharan Africa. In 2018, total ASF consumption was highest in Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey, and lowest in Uganda, India, Kenya and Bangladesh. These findings can inform policy to address malnutrition through targeted ASF consumption programmes.