[Trends in main food intake among adult residents of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from 1982 to 2015].

ObjectiveTo analyze the trend in main food intake of adult residents in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from 1982 to 2015.MethodsData were obtained from the Nutrition and Health Status Survey/Monitoring Database of the Chinese Population 1982-2015. The 1982 dietary survey used the bookkeeping method and the food weighing method, and the 1992-2015 dietary survey used the 24-hour dietary review method for three consecutive days and the weighing method to collect food and condiment intake information from the survey respondents. Information on food and condiment intake was collected from the 1992-2015 Dietary Survey using the 24-hour dietary recall method and weighing method on consecutive days.ResultsThe average daily intake of grains and cereals, coarse grains and miscellaneous beans, fresh fruits, milk and cooking salt among adult residents of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1982-2015 showed a decreasing trend(P_(trend)<0.01), with the larger decreases being in grains and cereals and cooking salt; the average daily intake of tubers, fresh vegetables, soybeans, livestock and poultry meats, fish and shrimp, eggs and cooking oil showed an increasing(P_(trend)<0.01), with a greater increase in livestock and poultry meat, tubers, soybeans, eggs and cooking oil; the changes in coarse grains and beans, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, fish and shrimp, and milk were not significant. Among urban adult residents, the average daily intake of grains and cereals and fresh vegetables has decreased significantly, while that of livestock and poultry meat, tubers, soybeans and eggs has increased significantly. Among rural adult residents, the average daily intake of coarse grains and beans and milk has decreased significantly, while that of livestock and poultry meat, tubers, cooking oil and eggs has increased significantly. The average daily intake of milk in male population showed a downward trend and the decrease was more significant(P_(trend)<0.05), and the trend of other food changes was consistent with the total population. The trend of major food intake of the female population was consistent with that of the total population.ConclusionFrom 1982 to 2015, the average daily intake of grain and cereals and cooking salt of adult residents in Xinjiang showed a decreasing trend, while the average daily intake of potato, livestock and poultry meat, soybeans, eggs and cooking oil showed an increasing trend; in 2015, adult residents in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region had an adequate intake of grain and cereals, an excessive intake of livestock and poultry meat, cooking oil and cooking salt, and an insufficient intake of other foodstuffs.