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. 2017 Nov 2;21(3):454–464. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017002671

Table 4.

Results of χ 2 tests. Percentage of products in a given product category using at least one occurrence of each front-of-package marketing strategy. Data from photographs of beverage packages taken in six urban supermarkets, representing five different supermarket chains, Santiago, Chile, 2015

Percentage of products per product category
Marketing strategy Plain waters (N 48) Plain milks (N 84) 100 % fruit juice (N 39) Sports/ flavoured waters (N 105) Fruit-flavoured drinks (N 296) Powder drinks (N 171) Soft drinks with sugar (N 60) Soft drinks, no sugar (N 60) Milk-based beverages (N 142)
Nutrition and health 63B 87A,C 56B 80A,C 62B 99A,B,C 48B 100A,B,C 89A,C
Nature and fruit 56B,C 25A,C 92A,B 56B,C 98A,B,C 98A,B,C 38C 30A,C 70A,B,C
Emotion and fun 23B 8A 21 11 10A,C 9A,C 13 12 13
Child-directed characters 6 12C 0B 1B 6 4B 2B 0B 33A,B,C
Childhood and family 6 10C 0B 0A,B 2B 0A,B 0B 0B 4
Sports and physical activity 2 6 0 50A,B,C 6 11C 2 0 18A,B,C
Product-oriented 6 11 10 15 11 29A,B,C 20A 18 15

A,B,CPercentages within a row with superscript letters were significantly different from that for Aplain waters, Bplain milks and/or C100 % fruit juice at P<0·05 based on post hoc Fisher’s exact probability tests (z tests).