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. 2023 Jun 17;153(8):2463–2471. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.06.015

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 (%)
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.

1

Numbers are presented in %.

2

> 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.