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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2014 Nov 13;88:17–23. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.11.005

Table 2.

Parents’ considerations when making decisions around portion sizes for their preschool child’s snacks

Considerations # Participants (%) References
Any mention of portion size considerations 25 (42%) 42
  Healthfulness of a food 16 (27%) 23
  Portion size related to location 7 (12%) 9
  Child’s hunger 6 (10%) 7
  Time since last eating episode 3 (5%) 4