Table 6.

Nutritional profile of items rated as more or less healthy in beverage vending machines. Beverages (n 618) 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	P value
Energy (kJ)	0·0	28·0	440·2	30·1	654·4	17·6	<0·0001	220·9	28·0	809·2	103·8	568·6	19·2	<0·0001	263·2	27·2	–	572·0	19·7	<0·0001
Fat (g)	0·0	0·1	0·7	0·1	0·0	0·0	<0·0001	0·0	0·1	0·8	0·2	0·2	0·0	<0·001	0·2	0·1	–	0·0	0·1	0·12
SFA (g)	0·0	0·0	0·3	0·0	0·0	0·0	<0·0001	0·0	0·0	0·1	0·1	0·1	0·0	0·03	0·1	0·0	–	0··1	0·0	0·22
TFA (g)	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·1	0·0	0·0	<0·0001	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·02	0·0	0·0	–	0·0	0·0	0·04
CHO (g)	0·0	1·6	21·7	1·8	41·2	1·0	<0·0001	12·2	1·7	47·5	6·2	35·0	1·2	<0·0001	13·5	1·6	–	35·8	1·2	<0·0001
Fibre (g)	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·002	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	0·0	1·0	0·0	0·0	–	0·0	0·0	0·02
Sugars (g)	0·0	1·7	18·9	1·8	39·0	1·0	<0·0001	10·9	1·7	40·4	6·2	33·1	1·1	<0·0001	12·2	1·6	–	33·8	1·2	<0·0001
Protein (g)	0·0	0·2	2·4	0·3	0·5	0·1	<0·0001	0·3	0·2	1·9	0·8	0·9	0·1	0·02	1·1	0·2	–	0·6	0·1	0·02
Na (mg)	0·0	7·9	75·3	8·6	117·5	4·9	<0·0001	6·5	6·5	26·1	24·2	120·7	4·5	<0·0001	27·0	6·6	–	112·3	4·8	<0·0001

BC, British Columbia; AB, Alberta; NS, Nova Scotia; TFA, trans-fatty acids; CHO, carbohydrate.

P values are for main effects from ANOVA.

^*No beverages were rated as moderately healthy in NS.