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4 sourced facts about vegetables, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.

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The basics

In 2010, which country produced more than half of the world's vegetables?

AnswerChina

China's vegetable output alone outweighed the rest of the world's producers combined that year.

Source: Wikipedia, Vegetable (FAO data) (2010) en.wikipedia.org

Going deeper

Japan's dietary guidelines recommend about how many servings of vegetables per day?

Answer5-6 servings

Japan's guideline sits close to the upper end of the range recommended by the USDA.

Source: Wikipedia, Vegetable (2020) en.wikipedia.org

Expert level

India's dietary guideline recommends about how many grams of vegetables per day?

Answerabout 275g

Different countries set their own vegetable-intake guidelines, and India's is measured in grams rather than servings.

Source: Wikipedia, Vegetable (2020) en.wikipedia.org

U.S. vegetables (and pulses) generate about what share of total U.S. crop cash receipts, despite using under 2% of harvested cropland?

Answerabout 14%

Vegetable farming is extremely land-efficient, generating outsized revenue from a tiny share of total farmland.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service (2008) ers.usda.gov

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