Table 2.
Proportion of infants receiving selected foods, drinks and supplements at 6 months of age, and frequency of consumption among users; InnBaKost survey, March 2013–February 2014
| Somali origin (n 107) | Iraqi origin (n 80) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary | Proportion of infants | Frequency (times/d) among users | Proportion of infants | Frequency (times/d) among users | |||||
| food/supplement | receiving (%) | Mean | sd | Median | receiving (%) | Mean | sd | Median | P value |
| Baby cereal* | 98 | 2·0 | 0·4 | 2·0 | 89 | 1·7 | 0·7 | 2·0 | 0·007 |
| Industrial baby cereal | 97 | 1·9 | 0·4 | 2·0 | 88 | 1·7 | 0·7 | 2·0 | 0·010 |
| Homemade | 6 | 0·9 | 0·6 | 1·0 | 1 | 2·0 | – | 2·0 | 0·120 |
| Dinner* | 90 | 1·0 | 0·2 | 1·0 | 83 | 1·2 | 0·9 | 1·0 | 0·151 |
| Industrial | 29 | 0·7 | 0·4 | 1·0 | 36 | 0·8 | 0·7 | 0·7 | 0·291 |
| Homemade | 71 | 0·9 | 0·2 | 1·0 | 74 | 0·9 | 0·7 | 0·7 | 0·681 |
| Fruit purée/berries* | 82 | 1·1 | 0·6 | 1·0 | 98 | 1·3 | 0·9 | 1·0 | 0·001 |
| Industrial | 65 | 1·0 | 0·6 | 1·0 | 51 | 0·8 | 0·6 | 0·7 | 0·051 |
| Homemade | 26 | 0·9 | 0·6 | 0·9 | 80 | 1·0 | 0·8 | 1·0 | <0·001 |
| Other food* | 29 | – | – | – | 58 | – | – | – | <0·001 |
| Bread | 13 | 0·6 | 0·3 | 0·7 | 33 | 0·8 | 0·6 | 0·9 | 0·001 |
| Yoghurt | 12 | 0·8 | 0·4 | 1·0 | 29 | 0·6 | 0·6 | 0·3 | 0·004 |
| Ice cream | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0·3 | 0·0 | 0·3 | 0·043 |
| Cookies/cakes | 3 | 0·3 | 0·0 | 0·3 | 25 | 0·5 | 0·3 | 0·3 | <0·001 |
| Spinach | 5 | 0·6 | 0·4 | 0·3 | 5 | 1·1 | 1·0 | 1·1 | 0·918 |
| Honey | 2 | 1·1 | 1·2 | 1·1 | 1 | 0·3 | – | 0·3 | 0·739 |
| Other food | 7 | 0·5 | 0·3 | 0·3 | 11 | 0·5 | 0·4 | 0·3 | 0·375 |
| Liquid* | 93 | – | – | – | 100 | – | – | – | 0·020 |
| Infant formula | 79 | 3·3 | 1·4 | 3·0 | 61 | 3·7 | 1·5 | 4·0 | 0·010 |
| Cow’s milk | 0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | |
| Water | 93 | 2·4 | 1·4 | 2·0 | 100 | 2·8 | 1·5 | 3·0 | 0·012 |
| Sweetened drinks† | 8 | 0·9 | 0·6 | 1·0 | 19 | 0·5 | 0·5 | 0·3 | 0·020 |
| Fruit juices† | 9 | 0·9 | 0·3 | 1·0 | 23 | 0·7 | 0·7 | 0·3 | 0·013 |
| Rosehip extract | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | – |
| Supplements* | 100 | – | – | – | 94 | – | – | – | 0·009 |
| Cod-liver oil | 68 | 1·0 | 0·2 | 1·0 | 40 | 0·9 | 0·3 | 1·0 | <0·001 |
| Vitamin D drops | 36 | 1·0 | 0·3 | 1·0 | 53 | 1·0 | 0·2 | 1·0 | 0·028 |
| Other supplements | 5 | 1·5 | 0·6 | 2·0 | 8 | 1·5 | 1·2 | 1·0 | 0·416 |
*
Proportion of infants receiving ‘Baby cereal’ is not necessarily equal to the sum of the two types of baby cereals presented, because the infants could have received more than one type. This is also the case for ‘Dinner’, ‘Fruit purée/berries’, ‘Other food’, ‘Liquid’ and ‘Supplements’.
†
‘Sweetened drinks’ include squash for children 0–3 years, squash with sugar, squash artificially sweetened, soda with sugar and soda artificially sweetened. ‘Fruit juices’ include juice and nectar.