MEAT, POULTRY AND GAME PRODUCTS AND DISHES

The Meat, poultry and game products and dishes food group includes beef, lamb, pork, poultry, sausages, processed meat (e.g. salami), wild harvested foods, and mixed dishes where meat or poultry is the major component e.g. casseroles, curried sausages and chicken stir-fry.

Three quarters of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (76%) consumed a food from the Meat, poultry and game products and dishes group. Food from this group contributed 17% of total energy intake for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (see Table 8.1). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males and females were equally likely to have consumed from this food group (see Table 4.1).

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the most commonly consumed food from the Meat, poultry and game products and dishes was Processed meat (29%), followed by Beef, sheep and pork, unprocessed (23%) and Poultry and feathered game (17%) (see Table 4.1).

Was there a difference by remoteness?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote areas were more likely than those in non-remote areas to have consumed foods from the Meat, poultry and game products and dishes group (81% compared with 74%), and derived a greater proportion of their daily energy intake from it (23% compared with 15%). While similar proportions of people living in non-remote and remote areas had eaten Processed meat, those living in remote areas were more likely than those in non-remote areas to have consumed Beef, sheep and pork, unprocessed (30% compared with 21%). Only people living in remote areas reported consuming Wild harvested meat, and meat dishes (7%)(see Table 4.1).

How did this compare with non-Indigenous people?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were more likely to have consumed food from the Meat, poultry and game products and dishes group than non-Indigenous people (76% compared with 69%), and derived a higher proportion of their energy intake from food in this group (16% compared with 14%). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were more likely than non-Indigenous people to have eaten Processed meat (29% compared with 22%) (see Table 4.1 and Table 4.3).