USDA: Americans only eat 3 types of veg
The USDA found that all the other vegetables or legumes available to Americans only made up 40 percent of their diet, with no single vegetable or legume reaching more than 5 percent consumed. Breaking it down even further, the USDA found that there was not much variation with how we consumed the big three vegetables. The data contains only white potatoes, two-thirds of which were turned into French fries and potato chips, while tomatoes were mostly eaten in sauces or as an ingredient in another dish. Lettuce was the only one that was consumed fresh.
Vegetable consumption is more diverse than it was 40 years ago, when 67 percent of Americans' vegetable diet was potato, tomato, and lettuce, but we actually have more readily available fresh tomato and lettuce now than we did then. Only fresh potato availability has switched, with 61.8 pounds available per person in 1970, compared to 34.6 pounds available in 2013.
Vegetables are among the most thrown-away foods, according to a study, with 41 percent of Americans not even thinking about how much food they waste per year.
Source: medicaldaily.com