TABLE 1.
Groups of foods of low nutritional quality1
| Group | Food-frequency questionnaire items (serving specified in question) |
| Sugar-sweetened beverages | Soda, not diet (1 can or glass) |
| Hawaiian Punch,2 lemonade, Kool-Aid,3 or other noncarbonated fruit drink (1 glass) | |
| Sports drinks (Powerade4 or Gatorade5) (individual bottle) | |
| Chocolate or other flavored milk (glass) | |
| Milkshake or frappe (1) | |
| Fast food | Cheeseburger (1) |
| Hamburger (1) | |
| Pizza (2 slices) | |
| Tacos/burritos/enchiladas (1) | |
| Chicken nuggets (6) | |
| Hot dogs (1) | |
| French fries (large order) | |
| Sweets | Fruit snacks or fruit rollups (1 pack) |
| Pop-Tarts6 (1) | |
| Cake (1 slice) | |
| Snack cakes, such as Twinkies7 (1 package) | |
| Danish, sweet rolls, pastry (1) | |
| Donuts (1) | |
| Cookies (1) | |
| Brownies (1) | |
| Pie (1 slice) | |
| Chocolate (1 bar or packet) such as Hershey's8 or M&M's9 | |
| Other candy bars (Milky Way,9 Snickers9) | |
| Other candy without chocolate (Skittles9) (1 pack) | |
| Ice cream | |
| Popsicles | |
| Salty snacks | Potato chips (1 small bag) |
| Corn chips/Doritos10 (small bag) | |
| Popcorn (1 small bag) | |
| Pretzels (1 small bag) | |
| Crackers, such as Wheat Thins11 or Ritz11 |
1
Identified by comparing marketing expenditure reports and content analyses of advertising on television and other media to comparable food items on Growing Up Today Study II questionnaires.
2
Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
3
Kraft Foods Group.
4
The Coca-Cola Company.
5
PepsiCo.
6
Kellogg Company.
7
Hostess Brands, LLC.
8
The Hershey Company.
9
Mars, Incorporated.
10
Frito-Lay North American, Inc.
11
Mondelēz International, Inc.