Uneven dietary development: linking the policies and processes of globalization with the nutrition transition, obesity and diet-related chronic diseases

Table 3 China- Soybean product imports and consumption of soybean oil.

	1989–1991	2000–2002
Imports of soybeans (Mt)	1,961,944	14,368,805
Imports of soybean oil (Mt)	435,735	736,254
Calories available from soybean oil/cap/day	27	78
Calories available from all vegetable oils/cap/day	141	213
Soybean oil as percentage of calories available from all vegetable oils (%)	19	37

Source: based on data from FAOSTAT 2005 [42,145,146]. The numbers represent 3 year averages around 1990 and 2001

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