Table 4.
Foods most commonly consumed as snacks by US children according to age category; Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study 2008: FITS 2008
| 6–8·9 months (n 249) | 9–11·9 months (n 256) | 12–23·9 months (n 925) | 24–35·9 months (n 736) | 36–47·9 months (n 725) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selected food group | % consuming | g/capita | se | % consuming | g/capita | se | % consuming | g/capita | se | % consuming | g/capita | se | % consuming | g/capita | se |
| Dairy | |||||||||||||||
| Cow’s milk | 1·8 | 4·1 | 3·0 | 4·6 | 14·5 | 7·1 | 45·9 | 131·0 | 10·0 | 38·4 | 95·8 | 9·0 | 40·7 | 93·4 | 7·8 |
| Cheese | 0·8 | 0·2 | 0·1 | 1·6 | 0·6 | 0·4 | 12·7 | 3·4 | 0·5 | 12·3 | 3·5 | 0·5 | 12·9 | 3·9 | 0·7 |
| Yoghurt | 5·5 | 4·9 | 2·5 | 5·5 | 3·8 | 1·2 | 11·3 | 10·1 | 2·0 | 12·8 | 16·4 | 2·6 | 12·2 | 14·9 | 2·9 |
| Grain foods | |||||||||||||||
| Cereal bars | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·5 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·7 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 |
| Infant cereals | 26·8 | 4·1 | 1·3 | 17·2 | 5·8 | 2·3 | 1·3 | 0·7 | 0·3 | 1·5 | 0·5 | 0·5 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 |
| Breakfast cereals* | 8·3 | 0·5 | 0·3 | 18·4 | 1·5 | 0·5 | 14·3 | 2·0 | 0·3 | 10·5 | 2·0 | 0·4 | 8·2 | 1·6 | 0·3 |
| Crackers† | 6·4 | 0·6 | 0·3 | 15·1 | 1·3 | 0·3 | 28·6 | 4·8 | 0·5 | 24·1 | 5·8 | 1·0 | 28·3 | 6·1 | 0·7 |
| Fruit and 100 % juice | |||||||||||||||
| Baby fruits | 7·3 | 6·8 | 2·6 | 10·0 | 12·2 | 7·0 | 3·5 | 2·0 | 0·6 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·0 |
| Fruits | 6·4 | 3·4 | 1·5 | 27·8 | 24·5 | 7·9 | 37·2 | 36·8 | 4·8 | 46·3 | 54·9 | 5·0 | 42·9 | 50·0 | 4·4 |
| 100 % juice | 24·3 | 22·1 | 8·3 | 18·6 | 23·1 | 5·6 | 31·7 | 58·9 | 5·9 | 25·7 | 45·4 | 5·2 | 19·1 | 41·2 | 5·9 |
| Discretionary sweets & snacks | |||||||||||||||
| Cookies, cakes, pies | 8·7 | 1·2 | 0·5 | 17·5 | 2·4 | 0·8 | 29·2 | 8·1 | 1·4 | 36·8 | 9·0 | 0·9 | 33·1 | 11·2 | 1·2 |
| Candy | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·7 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 14·5 | 3·3 | 0·5 | 19·8 | 4·5 | 0·7 | 23·9 | 5·4 | 0·6 |
| Sweetened beverages‡ | 0·2 | 0·1 | 0·1 | 4·9 | 23·2 | 21·2 | 14·0 | 24·6 | 4·6 | 19·9 | 42·7 | 8·1 | 17·7 | 35·2 | 5·3 |
| Ice cream/ frozen desserts | 2·0 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 3·0 | 0·5 | 0·3 | 6·1 | 4·0 | 1·1 | 8·0 | 5·9 | 1·2 | 12·2 | 8·9 | 1·6 |
| Salty snacks§ | 0·3 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 2·1 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 11·5 | 1·6 | 0·3 | 14·6 | 2·0 | 0·3 | 18·0 | 3·1 | 0·5 |
*
Breakfast cereals included both ready-to-eat cereals and cooked (hot) cereals.
†
Crackers included different types of crackers as well as pretzels and rice cakes.
‡
Sweetened beverages included carbonated and non-carbonated sweetened beverages.
§
Salty snacks included potato chips, popcorn, cheese curls/puffs, tortilla chips and other types of chips and salty snacks.