TABLE 2.
Proportion of infants who received various complementary foods at 6, 9, and 12 mo in the No Food Intervention and Food Intervention groups1
| 6 mo (%) |
9 mo (%) |
12 mo (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFI | FI | NFI | FI | NFI | FI | |
| Cow milk | 11 | 64 ∗ | 30 | 64 ∗ | 58 | 74 ∗ |
| Lactose free milk | <1 | 3 ∗ | 4 | 7 ∗ | 7 | 8 |
| Unpasteurized cow milk | <1 | <1 | <1 | 2 ∗ | 1 | 2 |
| Pro/prebiotic dairy | 2 | 7 ∗ | 6 | 13 ∗ | 20 | 23 ∗ |
| Yogurt | 12 | 26 ∗ | 41 | 60 ∗ | 80 | 85 ∗ |
| Cheese | 6 | 8 ∗ | 50 | 62 ∗ | 86 | 88 |
| Other dairy products | 8 | 14 ∗ | 36 | 48 ∗ | 58 | 63 ∗ |
| Bread and other baked goods | 21 | 28 | 88 | 90 ∗ | 96 | 97 |
| Fruit and berries | 92 | 93 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| Root vegetables | 89 | 85 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| Vegetables | 69 | 66 | 97 | 97 | 98 | 98 |
| Peanuts | 12 | 85 ∗ | 22 | 72 ∗ | 34 | 68 ∗ |
| Other nuts | 4 | 7 ∗ | 15 | 21 ∗ | 24 | 35 ∗ |
| Egg foods | 11 | 22 ∗ | 63 | 76 ∗ | 87 | 90 ∗ |
| Egg pure | 21 | 82 ∗ | 64 | 82 ∗ | 81 | 89 ∗ |
| Fatty fish | 19 | 17 | 86 | 86 | 93 | 93 |
| Fish other | 12 | 12 | 70 | 70 | 84 | 84 |
| Shellfish | 1 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 27 | 29 |
| Poultry | 18 | 15 ∗ | 81 | 81 | 88 | 88 |
| Meat other | 22 | 20 | 90 | 89 | 94 | 94 |
| Home-cooked vs commercially prepared | ||||||
| Only home-cooked | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| >Home-cooked2 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 34 | 36 |
| Equal amounts | 23 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 31 | 28 |
| > Commercially prepared | 34 | 36 | 43 | 42 | 29 | 31 |
| Only commercially prepared | 12 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Amount of organic food | ||||||
| Very little/ none | 15 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 14 ∗ |
| Small amount | 21 | 22 | 29 | 28 | 38 | 37 |
| Half | 23 | 23 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| Majority | 32 | 29 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 16 |
| Don’t know | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
Abbreviations: FI, Food Intervention; NFI, No Food Intervention.
Numbers are presented in %.
> Home cooked refers to the infant diet consisting of more home-cooked foods than commercially prepared infant foods, and vice versa for > Commercially prepared.
Indicates a significance P < 0.05 when comparing infants in the Food Intervention (FI) group with infants in the No Food intervention (NFI) group at each time point. We used chi-square test to assess differences of complementary food intake between groups.