. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Sprinklers on the Oyler-Walker bog at Auburn Per Capita Consumption of All FrpJts Has Been Decreasinff Fresh Products Demand Going Down, But Processed Items Increase "During the past decade, per capita consumption of frozen fruits and fruit juices, fresh equivalent basis, increased more than 10 times. In contrast, consumption of fresh, dried, and canned fruits and fruit juices combined de- creased. Per capita consumption of all fruits and fruit juices de- clined from a high of about 225 pounds in 1946 to 193 pounds in 1954. Th
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Sprinklers on the Oyler-Walker bog at Auburn Per Capita Consumption of All FrpJts Has Been Decreasinff Fresh Products Demand Going Down, But Processed Items Increase "During the past decade, per capita consumption of frozen fruits and fruit juices, fresh equivalent basis, increased more than 10 times. In contrast, consumption of fresh, dried, and canned fruits and fruit juices combined de- creased. Per capita consumption of all fruits and fruit juices de- clined from a high of about 225 pounds in 1946 to 193 pounds in 1954. The 1954 total was made up about as follows: fresh, 53 per- cent; canned, 24 percent; frozen, 16 percent; and dried, 7 ; The above is taken from the October 28th issue of "The Fruit Situation" a publication of the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture. Table 1 of this issue gives the per capita consumption of fresh fruits from 1909 thru 1954 which shows a general decline of fruit consumed fresh from about 140 pounds per capita to about 108 from the early year to the later. However, during this time the total for all citrus fruits was increased from 16 pounds in 1909 to 41 pounds in 1954 (high 67 pounds in 1944). Apples show a steady de- cline from over 60 pounds to less than 20 nounds. The per capita consumption of bananas remained about the same — in the vicinity of 20 pounds per person. Peaches fluctuate, the high being a little over 20 and the low less than 10 pounds per capita. Fresh cranber- ries declined from .6 to .3 while fresh apricots increased from .2 to .9 (1944) and declined to .3, and avocados increased from less (1924) to .6 in 1954. In general, people are eating less cherries, grapes, pears and straw- berries. The fresh fruit consump- tion has dropped 32 percent from 1909 to 1954 but the fresh cran- berry consumption has dropped a- bout 50 percent. Table 2 of The Fruit Situation presents the per ca
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