Table 4.
Hispanic (n 143) | African-American (n 130) | |||||||||||||
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Baseline | 6 months | Change | Baseline | 6 months | Change | |||||||||
Available in the home in the past week | Mean or n | sd or % | Mean or n | sd or % | Mean or n | sd or % | P* | Mean or n | sd or % | Mean or n | sd or % | Mean or n | sd or % | P* |
Number of fruits†, mean and sd | 12·4 | 4·0 | 11·9 | 3·8 | −0·57 | 3·68 | 0·07 | 8·6 | 4·2 | 9·2 | 3·9 | 0·58 | 3·54 | 0·06 |
Number of 100 % fruit juices‡, mean and sd | 2·6 | 0·9 | 2·5 | 1·1 | −0·07 | 1·16 | 0·47 | 2·3 | 1·0 | 2·7 | 1·0 | 0·38 | 1·12 | <0·001 |
Number of vegetables§, mean and sd | 14·9 | 4·3 | 15·4 | 3·9 | 0·43 | 3·38 | 0·13 | 11·5 | 4·5 | 12·9 | 4·2 | 1·36 | 3·62 | <0·001 |
Number of whole-grain items∥, mean and sd | 1·9 | 0·7 | 2·2 | 0·7 | 0·29 | 0·93 | <0·001 | 1·5 | 0·9 | 1·9 | 0·9 | 0·48 | 0·98 | <0·001 |
Milk, 2 %, 1 %, non-fat¶ | 100 | 70 | 132 | 92 | 32 | 22 | <0·001 | 64 | 49 | 101 | 78 | 37 | 28 | <0·001 |
Milk, whole¶ | 65 | 45 | 27 | 19 | −38 | −27 | <0·001 | 83 | 64 | 54 | 42 | −29 | −22 | <0·001 |
WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
*From McNemar's test for milk and paired t tests for other variables.
†From a list of twenty-five fruits, not including juices.
‡From a list of four 100 % fruit juices.
§From a list of twenty-five vegetables.
∥Whole-grain bread, corn tortillas, brown rice.
¶Values presented are n and %.