Table 6.
Mean (sd) weight of food groups (including non-consumers) and percentage of consumers provided by 681 packed lunches and 584 school lunches eaten by 14–15-year-old boys and girls on school days, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2006
| Packed lunch | School lunch | |||||||
| Mean | sd | % consumers | Mean | sd | % consumers | P* | ||
| Pasta, rice, pizza | 9·2 | 41·0 | 6 | 36·9 | 80·0 | 22 | <0·001 | |
| Bread | 50·7 | 41·2 | 70 | 27·9 | 38·9 | 41 | <0·001 | |
| Biscuits, cakes, puddings | 14·4 | 31·8 | 31 | 20·5 | 38·8 | 33 | 0·003 | |
| Cheese, yoghurt | 17·2 | 35·4 | 29 | 12·0 | 33·7 | 19 | 0·001 | |
| Meat† | 21·5 | 39·5 | 41 | 30·6 | 59·9 | 37 | 0·002 | |
| Fish | 3·8 | 17·1 | 5 | 8·7 | 31·6 | 9 | <0·001 | |
| Vegetables‡ | 12·1 | 30·3 | 25 | 22·3 | 46·9 | 29 | <0·001 | |
| Potatoes§ | 4·1 | 24·1 | 3 | 33·9 | 66·0 | 23 | <0·001 | |
| Fruit | 38·6 | 64·5 | 34 | 16·6 | 43·5 | 16 | <0·001 | |
| Fruit juice | 23·4 | 79·5 | 11 | 25 | 87·8 | 9 | NS | |
| Confectionery | 6·6 | 20·7 | 17 | 3·8 | 16·0 | 10 | 0·010 | |
| Savoury snacks | 7·7 | 14·1 | 26 | 3·2 | 9·3 | 12 | <0·001 | |
| Soft drinks | 85·2 | 183·0 | 24 | 54·5 | 134·7 | 17 | 0·001 | |
*P, significance of the difference between the mean weight of the food group provided by packed lunch v. school lunch.
†Meat includes meat dishes, processed meat and meat products.
‡Vegetables include baked beans and pulses.
§Potatoes include chips, but not crisps, and not potatoes as part of a dish containing meat or other vegetables.