Resumen

SHAMAH LEVY, Teresa; CUEVAS NASU, Lucia; MAYORGA BORBOLLA, Erika  y  VALENZUELA BRAVO, Danae Gabriela. Food consumption Latin America and Caribbean countries. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2014, vol.27, n.1, pp.40-46. ISSN 0798-0752.

Feeding and lifestyle patterns in Latin America have being affected during the last decades due to globalization and urbanization processes. According to FAOSTAT data from 2009, 29 Latin America and Caribbean countries (Surinam has no data) wheat, rice, corn and unrefined sugar are the basic products with greater availability. Per-capita energy availability in all the region countries shows that a higher amount of kilocalories comes from vegetal products than those of animal ones; countries like Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela have daily Per-capita energy availability above 3000 kcal. Haiti is the only country with under the 2000 kcal/day. Protein availability per-capita shows ciphers above 80g/day for Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominica, Mexico and Venezuela , whereas countries like Ecuador, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Suriname are under 60g/day.Fat per-capita availability shows that Argentina, Brazil and Barbados are above 100g/day in contrast with Peru and Haiti both with the lowest availability barely above 40g/ day.

Palabras clave : Food consumption; Latin America; Per-capita energy; proteins; fats.

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