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. 2023 Dec 5;20:143. doi: 10.1186/s12966-023-01538-7

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Characteristic All Male Female
(N = 2232) (N = 1069) (N = 1163)
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Age (years) 50.2 17.3 50.3 17.2 50.0 17.5
Body height (cm) 162.6 8.9 169.4 6.3 156.3 5.9
Body weight (kg) 60.9 12.1 68.0 10.9 54.4 9.0
Body mass index (kg/m2) 22.9 3.5 23.7 3.3 22.3 3.5
Energy intake (kJ/day) 7694 2222 8518 2307 6938 1842
HPF consumption (g/4184 kJ) 194 124 222 141 169 99
Food choice values (1–5)a
 Accessibility 3.2 0.8 3.1 0.8 3.3 0.7
 Convenience 3.1 0.8 2.9 0.9 3.2 0.8
 Health/weight control 2.8 0.9 2.7 1.0 3.0 0.8
 Tradition 2.1 0.8 2.0 0.8 2.2 0.7
 Sensory appeal 3.3 0.7 3.2 0.7 3.4 0.7
 Organic 2.9 0.8 2.7 0.9 3.2 0.8
 Comfort 2.3 0.8 2.2 0.8 2.5 0.8
 Safety 3.3 0.9 3.1 0.9 3.5 0.8
 Nutrition knowledge (1–143)a 70.2 24.6 63.9 25.9 76.0 21.8
 Cooking skills (0–98)a 43.3 26.0 30.3 25.9 55.2 19.5
 Food skills (0–133)a 62.5 34.6 43.6 34.1 79.9 24.4
Eating behaviours (1–5)a
 Hunger 2.8 0.7 2.7 0.7 2.9 0.7
 Food responsiveness 2.7 0.7 2.6 0.6 2.9 0.7
 Emotional overeating 2.4 0.8 2.2 0.8 2.5 0.8
 Enjoyment of food 4.0 0.7 3.9 0.8 4.1 0.7
 Satiety responsiveness 2.6 0.7 2.5 0.7 2.7 0.7
 Emotional undereating 2.7 0.9 2.6 0.9 2.9 0.8
 Food fussiness 2.6 0.8 2.6 0.8 2.5 0.8
 Slowness in eating 2.6 0.7 2.4 0.7 2.7 0.7

HPF highly processed food, SD standard deviation

aThe range of possible scores is shown in the parenthesis