Table 5.
Plate waste for fruit and vegetable items served in four middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District by race/ethnicity, 2011. a
| Race/ethnicity | Students selecting item (Number, %)b |
Plate waste (Number, %)c |
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| Selected | Did not take | Ate any | Wasted all | |
| Fruit d | ||||
| Latino | 515 (47.4) | 338 (31.1) | 392 (76.1) | 123 (23.9) |
| African-American | 273 (47.8) | 177 (31.0) | 226 (82.8) | 47 (17.2) |
| Other race | 145 (38.8) | 111 (29.7) | 113 (77.9) | 32 (22.1) |
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| Vegetable e | ||||
| Latino | 373 (35.5) | 448 (42.6) | 257 (68.9) | 116 (31.1) |
| African-American | 197 (38.6) | 199 (38.9) | 134 (68.0) | 63 (32.0) |
| Other race | 136 (36.8) | 116 (31.4) | 100 (73.5) | 36 (26.5) |
For each school, food and production waste included all lunch periods over five consecutive days in fall, 2011.
Percentages may not add to 100% because of missing data.
Of those students who selected the item.
Based on logistic regression analysis (adjusted for clustering): odds ratio (selected fruit) was African-American vs. Latino 1.01 (95% CI: 0.91, 1.13), Other race vs. Latino 0.86 (95% CI 0.60, 1.22); odds ratio (ate any fruit) was African-American vs. Latino 1.51 (95% CI 0.68, 3.37), Other race vs. Latino 1.11 (95% CI 0.60, 2.04).
Based on logistic regression analysis (adjusted for clustering): odds ratio (selected vegetable) was African-American vs. Latino 1.19 (95% CI: 0.81, 1.75), Other race vs. Latino 1.41 (95% CI 0.82, 2.41); odds ratio (ate any vegetable) was African-American vs. Latino 0.96 (95% CI 0.52, 1.76), Other race vs. Latino 1.25 (95% CI 0.89, 1.77).