Table 3.

Change in intake of foods and drinks with guidance on avoiding consumption from before to during pregnancy (maximum n 598)

	All participants									Pre-pregnancy consumers only
	n	Don’t eat/drink anyway		Ate/drank same or more often§		Ate/drank less often		Ate/drank before but avoided		n	Ate/drank same or more often§		Ate/drank less often		Ate/drank before but avoided
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%		n	%	n	%	n	%
Soft cheese	596	129	22	26	4	55	9	386	65	467	26	5	55	12	386	83
Unpasteurised milk	597	501	84	7	1	7	1	82	14	96	7	7	7	7	82	85
Liver/liver products	592	396	67	6	1	10	2	180	30	196	6	3	10	5	180	92
Paté (meat/vegetarian)	597	253	42	10	2	19	3	315	53	344	10	3	19	6	315	92
Game meat/gamebirds	594	436	73	83	14	45	8	30	5	158	83	53	45	28	30	19
Cured meats	597	119	20	80	13	96	16	302	51	478	80	17	96	20	302	63
Alcohol	597	97	16	1	0	53	9	446	75	500	1	0	53	11	446	89
Shark/marlin/swordfish*,†	590	–		–		–		–		45	–		–		40	89
Standard multivitamins‡	478	450	94	–		–		–		–	–		–		–

For full details of guidance on foods/drinks to avoid during pregnancy, see NHS website pages^(1–10).

Participants responding ‘Don’t know/Can’t remember’ were excluded from analyses.

^*52/598 (9 %) of participants did not include fish in their diet because they were vegan or vegetarian with no fish.

^†Frequency of consumption of shark/marlin/swordfish during pregnancy: Never, 585 (99 %); About one to two times per month/About once a week/Several times a week, 0 (0 %); Less than once per month, 5 (1 %).

^‡Frequency of standard multivitamin consumption during pregnancy: Never, 450 (94 %); Less than once per month/About one to two times per week/Several times a week, 10 (2 %); once a day, 18 (4 %).

^§Data for response categories ‘Ate/drank same’ and ‘Ate/drank more often’ were merged because of low numbers (<5) in the latter category.