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.
nutrients
A data frame with 9544 rows and 38 variables:
prot
proteins (in grams)
carb
carbonhydrate (in gram)
sugr
total sugars (in gram)
fibe
dietary fibers (in grams)
tfat
total fat (in grams)
sfat
saturated fat (in grams)
mfat
monounsaturated fat (in grams)
pfat
polyunsaturated fat (in grams)
chol
cholesterol (in milligrams)
atoc
vitamin E as alpha-tocopherol (in milligrams)
ret
retinol (in micrograms)
vara
Vitamin A as retinol activity equivalents (in micrograms).
acar
alpha-carotene (in micrograms)
bcar
beta-carotene (in micrograms)
cryp
beta-cryptoxanthin (in micrograms)
lyco
lycopene (in micrograms)
lz
lutein and zeaxanthin (in micrograms).
vb1
thiamin (vitamin B1, in milligrams)
vb2
riboflavin (vitamin B2, in milligrams)
niac
niacin (in milligrams)
vb6
vitamin B5 (in milligrams)
fola
total folate (in micrograms)
fa
folic acid (in micrograms)
ff
food folate (in micrograms)
chl
total choline (in milligrams)
vb12
vitamin B12 (in micrograms)
vc
vitamin C (in milligrams)
vd
vitamin D (comprising D2 and D3, in micrograms)
vk
vitamin K (in micrograms)
calc
calcium (in milligrams)
phos
phosphorus (in milligrams)
magn
magnesium (in milligrams)
iron
iron (in milligrams)
zinc
zinc (in milligrams)
copp
copper (in milligrams)
sodi
sodium (in milligrams)
pota
potassium (in milligrams)
sele
selenium (in micrograms)
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.