Table 2.

Comparison of child food and drink consumption characteristics between households with WIC and SNAP v. only WIC benefits; results from the 2014 Survey of Los Angeles County WIC Participants and the Follow-Up Survey, 2014

	Overall sample: main and follow-up surveys combined (n 3248)		SNAP and WIC household sample (n 1295)		Only WIC household sample (n 1953)
	n or Mean	% or sd	n or Mean	% or sd	n or Mean	% or sd
Total, n and %	3248	100	1295	100	1953	100
Child food consumption characteristics, mean and sd
Non-diet SSB (no. of drinks/d)†	0·78	1·22	0·91	1·32	0·69	1·15
Fruits (no. of servings/d)	3·05	1·41	3·05	1·25	3·05	1·50
Vegetables (no. of servings/d)	2·27	1·24	2·30	1·32	2·25	1·19
Water (no. of times/d)	4·27	2·88	4·27	2·98	4·27	2·81
Milk – whole, 1 %, 2 % or non-fat (no. of times/d)	2·28	4·17	2·30	1·47	2·27	1·37
Sweets or sweetened foods, such as sweetened cereals, fruit bars, pop-tarts, doughnuts, cookies and candies (no. of times/d)	0·85	0·78	0·90	0·82	0·81	0·75

SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; SSB, sugar-sweetened beverages.

Summary frequency analyses were used to derive the above values. Some values may not add up to 100 % due to missing data. ‘Don’t know’ or ‘refused’ were excluded from the study analysis.

^†‘Some but less than 1 full serving’ was set to 0·25 servings.