Maternal Health Plate Variety Score (HPVS) in pregnancy and at 47 months, and associated differences from the mean (β coefficients with 95 % confidence interval represented by vertical bars) for the HPVS in children in two European countries. Generalized linear models were adjusted for child gender, maternal age, education status and smoking status, duration of being breast-fed, age of introduction to solids, age of introduction to fruit and age of introduction to vegetables. Being in the lower tertiles (1 and 2) of maternal HPVS was used as the reference category (ALSPAC, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; EDEN, Etude des Déterminants pre et postnatals de la santé et du développement de l’Enfant)