Table 5.
Nutritional profile of items rated as more or less healthy in snack vending machines. Snacks (n 531) within vending machines in eighteen recreation and sport facilities in the three Canadian provinces were audited between April and July, 2013; half of the facilities were implementing nutrition guidelines
| BC | AB | NS | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most healthy | Moderately healthy | Least healthy | Most healthy | Moderately healthy | Least healthy | Most healthy | Moderately healthy | Least healthy | |||||||||||||
| Mean | se | Mean | se | Mean | se | P value | Mean | se | Mean | se | Mean | se | P value | Mean | se | Mean | se | Mean | se | P value | |
| Energy (kJ) | 593·9 | 63·2 | 574·0 | 7·4 | 1005·8 | 16·3 | <0·0001 | 554·8 | 49·0 | 730·9 | 34·3 | 984·9 | 17·6 | <0·0001 | 468·2 | 51·5 | 590·8 | 26·8 | 1041·8 | 15·5 | <0·0001 |
| Fat (g) | 3·8 | 1·1 | 3·5 | 0·6 | 10·8 | 0·3 | <0·0001 | 3·2 | 0·9 | 5·7 | 0·6 | 10·5 | 0·3 | <0·0001 | 2·1 | 0·9 | 3·4 | 0·5 | 11·5 | 0·3 | <0·0001 |
| SFA (g) | 0·6 | 0·4 | 0·7 | 0·2 | 2·6 | 0·1 | <0·0001 | 0·7 | 0·3 | 1·1 | 0·2 | 2·5 | 0·1 | <0·0001 | 0·5 | 0·4 | 0·5 | 0·2 | 2·8 | 0·1 | <0·0001 |
| TFA (g) | 0·0 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·1 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·09 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·12 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·1 | 0·0 | 0·03 |
| CHO (g) | 22·9 | 3·1 | 24·3 | 1·5 | 33·3 | 0·8 | <0·0001 | 24·7 | 2·3 | 29·1 | 1·6 | 32·2 | 0·8 | 0·01 | 22·6 | 2·7 | 26·2 | 1·4 | 33·3 | 0·8 | <0·0001 |
| Fibre (g) | 4·1 | 0·3 | 2·2 | 0·1 | 1·6 | 0·1 | <0·0001 | 3·5 | 0·2 | 2·1 | 0·1 | 1·5 | 0·1 | <0·0001 | 3·0 | 0·3 | 2·2 | 0·1 | 1·6 | 0·1 | <0·0001 |
| Sugars (g) | 5·9 | 3·0 | 6·3 | 1·5 | 13·7 | 0·8 | <0·0001 | 11·6 | 2·2 | 8·2 | 1·6 | 12·8 | 0·8 | 0·03 | 12·2 | 2·6 | 5·1 | 1·4 | 14·0 | 0·8 | <0·0001 |
| Protein (g) | 3·1 | 0·5 | 2·0 | 0·2 | 3·2 | 0·1 | <0·0001 | 2·6 | 0·4 | 2·6 | 0·2 | 3·1 | 0·1 | 0·11 | 1·9 | 0·4 | 2·1 | 0·2 | 3·4 | 0·1 | <0·0001 |
| Na (mg) | 156·2 | 31·8 | 165·4 | 15·6 | 239·0 | 8·2 | <0·0001 | 79·7 | 22·5 | 183·9 | 15·7 | 247·4 | 8·1 | <0·0001 | 102·9 | 27·9 | 218·7 | 14·4 | 231·0 | 8·5 | <0·0001 |
BC, British Columbia; AB, Alberta; NS, Nova Scotia; TFA, trans-fatty acids; CHO, carbohydrate.
P values are for main effects from ANOVA.