title: [Food availability according to food security-insecurity among Mexican households].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know the differences in food availability according to food insecurity level among the Mexican households.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed the database of the National Survey of Household's Incomes and Expenditures (n=27 445 households). Households were classified according to the Latin American and Caribbean Inventory of Food Security. The availability of each food group was estimated as grams per day per equivalent adult.
  
  
  RESULTS
  50.0% of Mexican households experienced some degree of food insecurity. Among households with food insecurity there was high availability of corn, wheat, egg, and sugars; but there was low availability of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meat, poultry, seafood, milk, cheeses, and sweetened beverages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although in households with food insecurity there is lower availability of most food groups (both with high nutrient density and with high energy density); they have higher availability of cheap foods, which in some cases are only source of energy but do not provide nutrients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, México.
authors.forename: Reyna Guadalupe
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Valencia-Valero
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, México.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Hernández
mesh_terms: D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005523:Food Supply / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires