Study objective: To investigate the independent association between individual and area
based socioeconomic measures and fruit and vegetable consumption. Design: Cross
sectional population based study. Setting and participants: 22 562 men and women aged 39–
79 years living in the general community in Norfolk, United Kingdom, recruited using general
practice age-sex registers. Outcome measures: Fruit and vegetable intake assessed using a
food frequency questionnaire. Main results: Being in a manual occupational social class …

Residential area deprivation predicts fruit and vegetable consumption independently of
individual education level and occupational social class: a cross sectional population study
in the Norfolk cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk)
— University of East Anglia … Residential area deprivation predicts fruit and vegetable
consumption independently of individual education level and occupational social class: a
cross sectional population study in the Norfolk cohort of the European Prospective …