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Table 3.

Relationships between the nutritional home environment and children's intake of fruit and vegetables using ANOVA (n = 279).

Descriptive Construct	Nutritional Home Environment Item	Children's Dietary Patterns Mean Fruit and Vegetable score (range = 0–21)				p value
		≤ 1/4 plate	1/3 plate	1/2 plate	> 1/2 plate
Parental behaviours associated with food	Average portion size served to child	8.3^a	10.6^b	10.9^b	11.0^b	0.002

		Frequently	Sometimes	Occasionally	Rarely/Never
	Food allowed to be eaten in front of TV	9.3^a	10.1^ab	10.4^ab	11.8^b	0.01
	Acceptance of wasted food	8.8^a	9.9^a	10.2^a	11.8^a	0.04
	Remind child to 'eat up'	9.7^a	11.6^b	10.5^ab	12.3^b	0.007
	Offer food rewards/incentives to eat main meals	9.0^a	10.9^a	10.9^a	10.5^a	0.04
	Restrict fruit juice	10.9^a	10.4^ab	11.3^a	9.2^b	0.02
	Restrict high fat/sugar snack foods	11.1^a	9.4^b	9.4^ab	8.4^ab	0.009
	Restrict second helpings	14.4^a	9.6^a	11.9^a	10.1^a	0.04
Availability of food in home	Take-away food purchased	8.5^a	9.8^a	10.8^a	11.3^a	0.03

		0–2.9 kg	3–5.9 kg	6–7.9 kg	≥8 kg
	Amount of fruit	9.2^a	11.0^b	11.7^b	11.9^b	<0.001
		0–1.9 l	2–2.9 l	3–3.9 l	≥4 l
	Amount of fruit juice in home	10.4^ab	11.6^a	9.2^ab	8.9^b	0.01
		0 boxes	0.5 boxes	1–2 boxes	>2 boxes
	Amount of muesli bars/breakfast bars in home	10.9^a	10.9^ab	9.2^b	10.5^ab	0.04

^a,bSuperscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.