 One, background, several international guidelines recommend consuming two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day, but their intake is low worldwide. We aim to determine the extent to which this low intake is related to availability and affordability. Two, methods, we assessed fruit and vegetable consumption using data from country-specific, validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaires in the prospective urban rural epidemiology, pure study, which enrolled participants from communities in 18 countries between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2013. We documented household income data from participants in these communities. We also recorded the diversity and non-sale prices of fruits and vegetables from grocery stores and marketplaces between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2013. We determined that. This article was authored by Victoria Miller, B.Sc., Professor Selene Youssef, D.Phil, Clara K. Chow, Ph.D., and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.