Danes were the closest to meeting the EU’s dietary recommendations than other European’s, the survey of 4,000 people conducted by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark found.
Survey
Most consumers in Denmark ate vegetables every day, with the overall proportion of vegetables in the daily diet rising by almost 20% since the last diet survey covering 2003–2008, researchers said.
The average consumption of fish among Danish adults had risen and most diets now contained about 14g more fish per day than in the last survey.
Intake had risen
Although vegetable and fish intake had risen, consumption of fruit had reduced by 16% for the same period among adults.
Meanwhile, the average saturated fat content in Danes’s diets exceeded recommendations by 50%, the survey showed. “Unfortunately, we have not seen a decrease in the intake of saturated fat compared with the previous dietary survey from five years ago,” researchers said.