ABSTRACT
From the second half of the twentieth century, two events characterised western societies from a nutritional point of view. The first was the culmination of the modern nutritional transition and the homogenising trend in diets. The second comprised the emergence of two food consumption models in high-income countries. The first model was characterised by an increased intake of agro-industrial foods en masse and the second by a reduction in calorie intake and growing consumption of processed, manufactured and differentiated products. Using Spain as a case study, the objective of this research was to gain an understanding of how the inequalities in terms of income and region evolved during both the culmination of the nutritional transition and the spread of the two food consumption models. Specifically, we will examine the disparities in the intake of dairy products, meat and alcoholic drinks from 1964 to 2018. Using direct sources of food consumption enables us to show that in the 1960s not all social classes or regions had culminated the modern nutritional transition. In the final decades of the twentieth century, the inequalities in food intake disappeared. However, in recent years, new forms of inequality have been emerging in the access to certain more sophisticated food products.
