Table 4a.

Weekly consumption frequency (means and their standard errors), prevalence of high consumption, and odds ratios (95 % confidence intervals) for intake of low-sugar and low-fat foods by classified parental education level and country; children (n 14 426) aged 2 to 9 years from eight European countries, baseline survey of IDEFICS study, September 2007 to May 2008

	Belgium					Estonia					Germany					Sweden
Food group/Parental education	Mean	se	p†	OR	95 % CI	Mean	se	p†	OR	95 % CI	Mean	se	p†	OR	95 % CI	Mean	se	p†	OR	95 % CI
Vegetables (raw and cooked)
Low	7·2	0·42	19	0·26***	0·11, 0·60	7·1	1·10	27	0·52	0·19, 1·41	8·4a,b	0·32	34	0·32***	0·23, 0·46	13·6	2·61	44	1·58	0·58, 4·34
Medium	7·7	0·16	41	0·82	0·66, 1·00	8·8	0·17	36	0·75	0·56, 1·00	10·4a	0·20	52	0·80	0·63, 1·02	11·6	0·35	31	0·93	0·73, 1·17
High	7·9	0·11	46			9·6	0·42	44			11·1b	0·33	57			12·0	0·19	33
Fruits
Low	5·4	0·61	9	0·48	0·14, 1·61	7·0	1·44	46	0·85	0·31, 2·33	7·1a,b	0·36	20	0·42***	0·30, 0·59	11·6	2·11	50	1·89	0·69, 5·16
Medium	5·4c	0·18	10	0·55***	0·39, 0·76	7·6	0·17	52	0·72*	0·52, 0·99	8·4a,c	0·18	29	0·63***	0·49, 0·82	9·3	0·28	36	1·03	0·82, 1·29
High	7·0c	0·15	17			8·3	0·39	58			9·6b,c	0·31	39			9·3	0·17	36
Fresh meat and fish
Low	3·1	0·61	38	2·03*	1·02, 4·05	3·8	0·81	33	1·10	0·41, 2·90	4·0a,b	0·23	46	1·94***	1·41, 2·66	3·0	0·44	31	0·65	0·22, 1·88
Medium	2·6c	0·12	34	1·60***	1·29, 2·03	4·2	0·09	37	1·09	0·81, 1·48	3·0a,c	0·09	35	1·25	0·96, 1·62	2·8	0·15	35	0·75*	0·60, 0·94
High	2·0c	0·08	24			4·2	0·19	35			2·4b,c	0·12	29			2·8	0·06	42
Pasta, noodles and rice
Low	1·8	0·15	3	0·26	0·03, 1·99	3·0	0·51	27	0·64	0·24, 1·73	3·2	0·20	27	0·94	0·67, 1·32	3·5	0·48	6	0·57	0·07, 4·40
Medium	1·8c	0·05	5	0·62*	0·40, 0·97	2·8c	0·06	25	0·57***	0·42, 0·78	2·9	0·07	30	0·99	0·76, 1·29	4·1	0·12	10	0·90	0·63, 1·29
High	2·1c	0·04	8			3·2c	0·14	37			2·9	0·09	30			4·2	0·06	11
Wholemeal bread
Low	1·6a,b	0·48	8	0·15*	0·05, 0·50	3·7	0·84	35	0·66	0·25, 1·76	4·6b	0·29	29	0·56***	0·40, 0·76	4·9	1·22	25	0·81	0·26, 2·56
Medium	3·7a,c	0·18	24	0·53***	0·42, 0·67	5·5	0·15	42	0·88	0·66, 1·18	5·2	0·15	37	0·79	0·62, 1·02	4·6	0·19	26	0·86	0·67, 1·10
High	5·4b,c	0·15	38			6·3	0·37	45			5·9b	0·27	43			4·8	0·12	29
Water
Low	9·7a,b	1·87	19	0·14***	0·07, 0·29	21·3	2·36	59	1·18	0·43, 3·25	18·0	0·69	45	0·94	0·68, 1·31	21·1	2·81	56	1·28	0·40, 4·07
Medium	14·3a,c	0·45	24	0·46***	0·37, 0·58	18·3	0·29	34	1·08	0·79, 1·48	18·5	0·37	44	1·00	0·77, 1·30	18·4c	0·46	34	1·22	0·96, 1·56
High	17·2b,c	0·30	25			17·8	0·71	35			17·9	0·60	38			16·6c	0·28	24
Plain unsweetened milk
Low	4·0b	0·58	5	0·16*	0·04, 0·67	13·2	1·97	50	1·29	0·53, 3·16	7·8	0·40	26	1·06	0·74, 1·50	14·7	2·16	38	3·20*	1·12, 9·10
Medium	5·3c	0·26	18	0·60***	0·46, 0·78	10·7	0·22	43	0·98	0·74, 1·33	8·2	0·20	30	1·25	0·95, 1·65	11·4	0·37	21	1·27	0·96, 1·67
High	6·7b,c	0·20	27			10·2	0·51	43			7·6	0·30	25			10·6	0·22	17

Reference group: high education.

Analysis of covariance model adjusted for gender, age and BMI category. Two-sided level of significance (P < 0·05): ^asignificant difference between low and medium; ^bsignificant difference between low and high; ^csignificant difference between medium and high.

OR and 95 % CI determined by logistic regression models. Variables included in the models were parental education, gender, age and BMI category. Two-sided level of significance: *P < 0·05, ***P < 0·001.

†p refers to the proportion of participants assigned to the highest consumption category.