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Estimates from the 2004-05 National Health Survey indicate that:

• 12.0% of Tasmanians ate one or less serves of vegetables per day;
• 46.2% only ate one or less serves of fruit a day;
• the most popular type of milk for Tasmanians was whole milk (50.2%); and
• more females than males used low or reduced fat, skim or soy equivalent milk.
  

	Males	Females	Persons
Dietary behaviour	%	%	%
Usual daily serves of vegetables
1 or less serves(b)	14.6	9.6	12.0
2 serves	15.3	12.5	13.9
3 serves	25.4	26.1	25.8
4 serves	26.3	29.9	28.2
5 serves or more	18.4	21.9	20.2
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
Usual daily serves of fruit
1 or less serves(c)	51.7	40.9	46.2
2 serves	25.2	31.5	28.4
3 serves	13.5	17.0	15.3
4 serves	5.5	6.3	5.9
5 serves or more	4.0	4.3	4.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
Usual type of milk
Whole	58.2	42.5	50.2
Low/reduced fat	28.4	35.7	32.1
Skim	5.1	13.1	9.2
Other	4.8	4.6	4.7
Does not drink milk	3.5	4.1	3.8
Total(d)	100.0	100.0	100.0