Table 2.
Food consumptiona in 8-year-old children born between 1994 and 1996 in Stockholm, by parental migration status.
| Food groups | Swedish | Immigrant | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any parent | Both parents | Only mother | Only father | |||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Fruits | 11.1 | 7.7 | 12.4** | 9.3 | 13.1** | 8.9 | 11.8 | 9.6 | 12.4 | 9.4 |
| Fruit products | 6.0 | 4.6 | 6.3 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 5.7 |
| Vegetables | 17.2 | 10.0 | 18.2* | 11.0 | 18.1 | 12.3 | 17.8 | 10.3 | 18.7 | 10.5 |
| Cereals | 9.7 | 4.3 | 9.4 | 4.5 | 8.9 | 5.2 | 9.7 | 4.4 | 9.6 | 3.9 |
| Potatoes | 5.1 | 2.4 | 4.8* | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 4.8* | 2.1 | 4.8* | 2.1 |
| Cakes and sweets | 9.2 | 4.6 | 9.5 | 5.8 | 10.9** | 7.6 | 9.0 | 4.7 | 8.8 | 4.6 |
| Fish | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 1.6 |
| Total meat | 11.0 | 4.9 | 10.9 | 6.0 | 10.7 | 7.6 | 11.2 | 5.2 | 10.8 | 5.2 |
| Pork | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Beef/lamb | 3.6 | 1.7 | 3.9* | 2.4 | 4.2* | 3.3 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 3.7 | 1.8 |
| Chicken/poultry | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.4** | 0.8 | 1.5*** | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| Processed | 5.2 | 3.6 | 4.7* | 4.2 | 4.2* | 5.0 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| Milk and dairy products | 25.2 | 13.1 | 23.1*** | 13.9 | 22.6* | 13.3 | 23.6 | 14.5 | 23.0* | 13.8 |
| Eggs | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0*** | 1.1 | 1.3*** | 1.3 | 1.0* | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
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| Number of children | 2028 | 561 | 171 | 200 | 190 | |||||
Values given in bold are statistically significant; SD: standard deviation.
aMean consumption per serving unit of food groups per week.
Mean consumption of food groups was significantly different in immigrant children compared with Swedish children (t-test): *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.