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. 2026 Jan 5;12:1651528. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1651528

Table 5.

Associations between parental food literacy (based on SFLQ score), perceived barriers and enablers (PBE score), healthy-eating attitudes (based on HEA score), and healthy-eating behavior (based on TIUH score) and their children’s adequacy to individual component of the KIDMED score.

Individual components of the KIDMED, beta (SE)a
SFLQ PBE HEA TIUH
Health Info Consciousness Orientation Beliefs
Fruit, 1 serv/d 1.288 (0.556)* 1.874 (1.569) 0.275 (0.207) −0.074 (0.221) −0.193 (0.365) 0.258 (0.591) 0.691 (0.673)
Fruit, 2 serv/d 0.302 (0.254) −0.909 (0.654) −0.029 (0.095) 0.292 (0.101)* 0.073 (0.167) 0.195 (0.27) 0.534 (0.308)
Vegetables, 1 serv/d −0.169 (0.481) −2.250 (1.225) 0.014 (0.179) 0.364 (0.191) 0.105 (0.315) 0.729 (0.511) −0.694 (0.582)
Vegetables, 2 serv/d 1.476 (0.248)** 1.029 (0.649) 0.289 (0.092)* 0.178 (0.098) 0.577 (0.162)** 0.963 (0.263)** 0.465 (0.30)
Fish, 2–3 serv/w 0.948 (0.239)** 2.048 (0.616)** 0.025 (0.089) −0.221 (0.095)* 0.186 (0.157) −0.130 (0.254) 1.800 (0.290)**
Meat, 1 serv/w 0.238 (0.233) 0.327 (0.587) 0.445 (0.087)** 0.349 (0.093)** 0.358 (0.153)* 1.008 (0.248)** −0.688 (0.282)*
Legumes, 1 serv/w −0.350 (0.244) 0.210 (0.633) 0.008 (0.091) −0.159 (0.097) 0.067 (0.160) −0.228 (0.259) 0.332 (0.295)
Pasta, 5 serv/w −0.816 (0.726) −4.803 (1.782)* 0.147 (0.270) 0.872 (0.289)* −0.192 (0.476) 0.532 (0.772) −1.105 (0.878)
Cereals or grains for breakfast 0.278 (0.281) −0.004 (0.807) −0.105 (0.104) 0.208 (0.112) 0.077 (0.184) 0.578 (0.298) −0.761 (0.340)**
Nuts, 2–3 serv/w 1.242 (0.258)** −0.223 (0.649) 0.138 (0.096) 0.379 (0.103)** 0.519 (0.169)* 1.085 (0.275)** 0.297 (0.313)
Olive oil consumption 2.124 (0.570)** 1.962 (1.652) 0.321 (0.212) 0.483 (0.227)* 0.882 (0.374)* 0.756 (0.606) 4.214 (0.690)**
Skipping breakfast 0.600 (0.602) −1.251 (1.771) 0.074 (0.224) 0.177 (0.239) 0.315 (0.395) −0.113 (0.64) −0.152 (0.729)
Milk or yogurt for breakfast 0.009 (0.257) 4.079 (0.648)** −0.176 (0.096) −0.858 (0.102)** 0.363 (0.169)* −0.343 (0.273) 1.916 (0.311)**
Cakes or pastries for breakfast −0.869 (0.621) 2.906 (1.596) 0.098 (0.231) −0.84 (0.247)** −0.299 (0.407) −0.871 (0.66) 0.053 (0.751)
Dairy, 2–3 serv/d 1.093 (0.298)** −1.858 (0.931)* 0.149 (0.111) 0.425 (0.118)** 0.320 (0.195) 1.003 (0.317)* 1.178 (0.36)**
Sweets, several serv/d −0.884 (0.648) 3.149 (2.026) −0.149 (0.241) 0.119 (0.258) −0.422 (0.425) −0.508 (0.689) −1.305 (0.784)

SFLQ, Short Food Literacy Questionnaire; PBE, Perceived Barriers and Enablers; HEA, Healthy-eating Attitudes; TIUH, Theory of Internet Use related to Health. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.001.

a

Linear regression analyses adjusted for all components of the KIDMED score.