TY - GEN T1 - Fruit consumption among adults in Germany AU - Mensink, Gert AU - Schienkiewitz, Anja AU - Lange, Cornelia AB - Eating fruit is part of a healthy diet and can help prevent various chronic diseases. According to GEDA 2014/2015- EHIS data, 54.2% of women and 38.1% of men eat fruit daily. 38.0% of women and 25.5% of men aged 18 to 29 years eat fruit daily; and in the age group of 65 and older this figure rises to 72.6% for women and 61.1% for men. In the age groups under 65, women with higher levels of education are more likely to eat fruit every day, for men this correlation applies only to those aged between 45 and 64. In Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the proportion of women and men who eat fruit daily is higher than the German average, and in Bavaria and Saarland the proportion of men who eat fruit daily is lower than the German average. KW - ADULTS KW - GERMANY KW - HEALTH MONITORING KW - FRUIT KW - INTERVIEW SURVEY KW - 610 Medizin PY - 2017 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung IS - 2 DO - 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2017-041 ER -