Table 1.

Comparison of demographic and dietary variables among frequent and infrequent label readers

	Frequent Label Readers (often, always/almost always)	Infrequent Label Readers (never/rarely, sometimes)
Na	418	775
DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE
Age (years)	22.0 (N=418)	21.3 (N=773)
BMI (kg/m2)	24.7 (N=418)	24.7 (N=775)
Female	64%* (N=418)	47% (N=773)
White	58%* (N=418)	41% (N=775)
DIETARY VARIABLE
Added Sugar (recommendation met)[20]	41.1%* (N=399)	24.7% (N=716)
Calcium (recommendation met)[18]	24.0% (N=371)	20.2% (N=664)
Dairy (≥3 servings/day)[19]	16.3% (N=412)	14.9% (N=759)
Fast Food (<3 times/week)[21-22]	39.5%* (N=418)	26.6% (N=775)
Fat (<35% of calories)[16]	93.0% (N=415)	90.4% (N=762)
Fiber (recommendation met)[17]	15.6%* (N=392)	6.1% (N=707)
Fruit/Vegetable (recommendation met)[17]	5.3%* (N=400)	2.1% (N=721)
Vegetarian[23-24]	9.0%* (N=415)	4.0% (N=765)
Total Healthy Dietary Practicesb (mean)	2.5* (n=417)	1.9 (N=754)
Absolute differences between participant estimated need and recommended intake
Calories	636.0* (N=407)	868.5 (N=735)
Fruit (servings)	1.5* (N=404)	1.8 (N=710)
Vegetables (servings)	2.8* (N=404)	3.3 (N=714)
Importance of preparing healthy mealsc	4.3* (N=417)	3.6 (N=769)

^*p<0.001

^aVariations in sample size for dietary variables due to removal of outliers 3 standard deviations above the mean.

^bTotal Healthy Dietary Practices was calculated as the total number of the 8 dietary recommendations the participant met; for those participants who were missing up to 3 dietary variables, this variable was calculated as the percentage of recommendations met for all valid variables multiplied by 8 (participants missing more than 3 dietary variables were also coded as missing the composite variable.)

^cThis item, “It’s important to me to prepare healthy meals,” had response options ranging from 1 (“strongly disagree”) to 5 (“strongly agree.”)