Table 1. Purchase Incidence of Selected Lunch Foods.
Control Group | Treatment Group | |||
Pre-NRC | Post-NRC | Pre-NRC | Post-NRC | |
n = 1417* | n = 1398* | n = 35* | n = 35* | |
Variables | t = 32295 | t = 25803 | t = 789 | t = 603 |
Grade(K-12) | 5.409 | 5.340 | 5.260 | 5.313 |
(3.534) | (3.498) | (3.261) | (3.216) | |
Cookies | 0.115 | 0.107 | 0.143 | 0.065 |
(0.416) | (0.421) | (0.429) | (0.272) | |
Ice Cream | 0.090 | 0.095 | 0.076 | 0.090 |
(0.290) | (0.298) | (0.270) | (0.297) | |
Chips | 0.103 | 0.079 | 0.089 | 0.038 |
(0.352) | (0.309) | (0.296) | (0.210) | |
Fruit | . | 1.009 | . | 1.098 |
. | (0.720) | . | (0.808) | |
Starch | . | 0.115 | . | 0.129 |
. | (0.321) | . | (0.346) | |
White Milk | . | 0.091 | . | 0.116 |
. | (0.288) | . | (0.321) | |
Flavored Milk | . | 0.857 | . | 0.849 |
. | 0.353 | . | 0.358 |
SD in parentheses, n = number of participants, t = number of transactions. *Chips only sold in grades 7-12. For chips--Control Pre-NRC n = 590/t = 12719, Control Post-NRC n = 578/t = 9970, Treatment Pre-NRC n = 15/t = 316, and Treatment Post-NRC n = 15/t = 265.