NCHS Data Brief, Number 376, September 2020

NCHS Data Brief, Number 376, September 2020

Nonalcoholic Beverage Consumption Among Adults: United States, 2015–2018

Key findings
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

• In 2015–2018, water accounted for more than one-half of total nonalcoholic beverage consumption (51.2%) among U.S. adults.
• Compared with women, men consumed more coffee, sweetened beverages, and fruit beverages as a percentage of total beverage consumption, and less water and tea.
• The contribution of water and sweetened beverages to total beverage consumption decreased with age, while the contribution of coffee, tea, milk, and diet beverages increased with age.
• The contribution of water (60.7%) and tea (13.6%) to total beverage consumption was highest among non-Hispanic Asian adults, while the contribution of coffee (17.3%) was highest among non-Hispanic white adults.

Keywords

​drinks, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

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