Published
AUSNUT 2023 is a collection of detailed data about the Australian food supply. It supports the 2023 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Study. It contains data to help the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) turn information people reported about foods and dietary supplements into intakes. It also contains information to help interpret the data and compare it with previous surveys.
The AUSNUT 2023 food measures data file contains 9,816 measures for the 3,741 foods. These include densities and food specific portions which reflect the portion types reported in the surveys.
Sources of measures data
AUSNUT 2023 incorporates measures data from a range of sources including previously published datasets, manual weighing of products undertaken by FSANZ, product labels, industry data and international datasets.
To help users identify the source of the measures data, each measure is assigned a derivation to indicate where it was obtained. Further information on the origin of the measures data can be found in the in AUSNUT 2023 – Food measures (Excel, 1.4MB).
More information
Detailed information about the development and content of the food measures dataset is provided in AUSNUT 2023 – About the food measures (PDF, 177KB).