Table 4

Dietary habits of the SPEEDY sample, as measured with food frequency questionnaire (numbers in cells are percentage of children reporting to consume the food type at least once a day)

Boys

Girls

Total

Fruit

51.6

61.1*

56.8

Vegetables

44.8

54.1*

49.9

Sweets

18.4

12.1*

14.9

Chocolate

18.6

14.2*

16.2

Sugary soft drinks (e.g. coke)

16.1

9.3*

12.4

Diet soft drinks

16.2

11.7*

13.8

Skimmed/semi-skimmed milk

54.1

51.0

52.4

Whole fat milk

15.6

13.2

14.3

Cheese

17.4

16.4

16.9

Breakfast cereals

60.1

51.9*

55.6

White bread

44.0

41.7

42.7

Brown bread

22.3

20.0

21.0

Crisps

24.1

20.5

22.1

Chips

7.8

5.3*

6.4

Fruit juices

54.5

54.9

54.7

Differences between boys and girls tested with Pearson Chi-square.

*: differences between boys and girls at p < 0.05

van Sluijs et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:388   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-388