Table 3.

Subtypes of Fast Food (FF) Eaten by Socio-demographic Characteristics of Adolescents in Mean Meals per Week

	Total FF meals/week	Traditional “burger and fries”	Subs and sandwiches	Pizza	Other fast food ²
Mean frequency of eating at FF restaurants per week	3.6	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.2
Ethnicity/Race¹
White	2.5a	0.7a	0.6ac	0.6a	0.5a
Black or African American	5.1b	1.2b	1.1b	1.3b	1.8b
Asian	2.5a	0.7a	0.5a	0.6a	0.8ac
Hispanic or Latino	3.3c	0.8a	0.7cd	0.7ac	1.2de
American Indian or Native American	3.6cd	0.9ac	0.9bd	0.9cd	1.0ce
Mixed or other	4.2d	1.1bc	0.9d	1.0d	1.4d
Test for an overall race effect (p-value)	<.001	<.001	<.001	<.001	<.001
Gender
Boys	3.6	0.9	0.8	0.8	1.2
Girls	3.7	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.2
Test for difference between genders (p-value)	0.6	0.527	0.8	0.216	0.671
SES (individual)
Low	3.9	1.0	0.9	0.9	1.3
Low-middle	3.6	1.0	0.8	0.8	1.2
Middle	3.8	0.9	0.8	1.0	1.3
Upper-middle	3.2	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.9
High	2.5	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7
Missing SES	4.7	1.2	0.9	1.1	1.7
Test for a trend by SES³	<.001	0.003	0.046	0.005	0.001
Grade Level
Middle school	3.6	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.2
High school	3.7	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.2
Test for difference between middle school and high school (p-value)	0.435	0.127	0.573	0.780	0.721

^1.

Ethnicities/races with different group letters within column are statistically significantly different at the p < 0.05 level.

^2.

For intake measure “Other” fast food includes response categories Mexican and fried chicken.

^3.

Test for trend by SES does not include those with missing SES (n=99).