Table 3.
Healthy Plate Variety Score (HPVS), food group (FG) scores and daily food group servings for each of the cohorts at each age studied
| Starchy foods | Fruit | Vegetables | Meat, fish & alternatives | Dairy | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HPVS | FG score | Daily servings | FG score | Daily servings | FG score | Daily servings | FG score | Daily servings | FG score | Daily servings | ||||||||
| Cohort | Age | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | (max. 7) | Mean | sd | (max. 2) | Mean | sd | (max. 3) | Mean | sd | (max. 2) | Mean | sd | (max. 3) |
| ALSPAC | 2 years | 2·3 | 0·81 | 0·29 | 0·12 | 2·0 | 0·55 | 0·30 | 1·2 | 0·41 | 0·21 | 1·2 | 0·53 | 0·24 | 1·1 | 0·56 | 0·20 | 1·7 |
| EDEN | 2 years | 2·9 | 0·65 | 0·37 | 0·15 | 2·6 | 0·63 | 0·29 | 1·3 | 0·36 | 0·24 | 1·1 | 0·64 | 0·21 | 1·3 | 0·86 | 0·17 | 2·6 |
| ALSPAC | 3 years | 2·8 | 0·60 | 0·48 | 0·14 | 3·4 | 0·41 | 0·22 | 0·8 | 0·48 | 0·26 | 1·5 | 0·70 | 0·21 | 1·4 | 0·65 | 0·17 | 1·9 |
| EDEN | 3 years | 2·8 | 0·70 | 0·36 | 0·15 | 2·6 | 0·58 | 0·30 | 1·2 | 0·34 | 0·25 | 1·0 | 0·65 | 0·21 | 1·3 | 0·84 | 0·18 | 2·5 |
| EuroPrevall | 3 years | 3·4 | 0·70 | 0·31 | 0·13 | 1·8 | 0·89 | 0·24 | 2·2 | 0·68 | 0·32 | 2·6 | 0·81 | 0·24 | 1·8 | 0·63 | 0·18 | 1·8 |
| ALSPAC | 4 years | 3·1 | 0·65 | 0·55 | 0·13 | 3·9 | 0·55 | 0·29 | 1·2 | 0·54 | 0·28 | 1·7 | 0·82 | 0·19 | 1·7 | 0·62 | 0·18 | 1·9 |
| Generation XXI | 4 years | 3·8 | 0·50 | 0·54 | 0·12 | 3·8 | 0·77 | 0·30 | 1·9 | 0·83 | 0·21 | 2·8 | 0·89 | 0·13 | 1·9 | 0·77 | 0·16 | 2·3 |
ALSPAC, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; EDEN, Etude des Déterminants pre et postnatals de la santé et du développement de l’Enfant.