Abstract
A statistical survey was made of the actual amounts of rice and other cereals consumed as staple foods, with the object of furnishing data for the reformation of the food life of the general Japanese. The examined subjects were members of some 43 to 155 households resident mostly at Fukuoka Prefecture and some few at other parts of Kyushu; the amounts of the staple foods consumed in 10 days during the winter in 1954 and during the spring and the summer in 1955 were determined by examining in detail the questionnaire filled out by each resident. The amount of the staple food consumed per day by the adult is averaged as follows:
Farmers' Family Nonfarmers' family
In gram In gram
Rice produced in
Japan 464.4 323.4
Rice imported 8.9 50.2
Barley 58.1 51.9
Wheat 71.5 64.0
0ther cereals 9.0 1.6
Potatoes 98.2 58.4
