By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
A Korean meal generally consists of 80 percent vegetables and 20 percent meat.
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday that Koreans ate 1,283 grams of food daily in 2007, broken down into 80.7 percent in vegetables, fruit and grain and 19.7 percent meat, fish or dairy products.
They ate 287.5 grams of vegetables, 283 grams of grains, 175.7 grams of fruits, 93.9 grams of meat, 88.6 grams of dairy products and 52 grams of fish.
The foods they ate were transformed into 1,809 kilocalories of energy, below the intake recommended by the government.
However, menus are becoming more westernized. Youngsters have started eating meat earlier ― 38.5 percent of children aged between one and two eat meat.
Meat intake has risen six times since 1969, the first time the survey was made.
The center also reported that those aged in their 30s and 40s are prone to be more obese because they prefer meat over vegetables.