Food consumption

Food consumption data provide the basis for estimating a population's exposure to contaminants or nutritional status. These consumption data are obtained by conducting surveys, which must be designed and carried out following international standards, so that the data obtained have a high degree of reliability.

AESAN has carried out ENALIA food consumption survey in Spain, in the child and adolescent population (0-17 years), and ENALIA 2 survey, in the adult population (18-75 years), including a sample of pregnant women.

Food consumption data from these two surveys, together with those from other European countries, are available in the EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption database on the EFSA’s website.

The following links provide access to the tables of food consumption data from the ENALIA and ENALIA 2 surveys, obtained from the EFSA’s database. An unofficial Spanish translation of the content has been included in these tables, and the original tables must be consulted in the EFSA’s database to carry out any checks.

For each of the types of consumption: chronic (all subjects/consumers only) or acute (all days/consuming days only), 7 Excel files are available, corresponding to 7 levels of food aggregation, from the least disaggregated level (L1), which contains 20 categories of food, to the most disaggregated level (L7), which contains more than 500 different foods.

All consumption data shown in the tables are expressed in grams of food/kg of body weight and include both sexes. If data expressed in total grams of food or data differentiated by sex are required, the original tables in English of the EFSA’s database should be consulted.

	L1	L2	L3	L4	L5	L6	L7
Chronic consumption: all subjects	L1_CT	L2_CT	L3_CT	L4_CT	L5_CT	L6_CT	L7_CT
Chronic consumption: consumers only	L1_CC	L2_CC	L3_CC	L4_CC	L5_CC	L6_CC	L7_CC
Acute consumption: all days	L1_AT	L2_AT	L3_AT	L4_AT	L5_AT	L6_AT	L7_AT
Acute consumption: consuming days only	L1_AC	L2_AC	L3_AC	L4_AC	L5_AC	L6_AC	L7_AC