Table 5. Dietary intake of energy, macronutrients, dietary fibre, minerals and vitamins of pre-schoolers of non-picky eating and picky eating groups.

	Non-picky eating		Picky eating		p value
	Mean	SE e	Mean	SE e	Unadjusted	Adjusted †
Energy (kcal)	1627.65	34.65	1554.05	34.27	0.133	0.232
Protein a (g)	55.77	1.37	51.81	1.10	0.023	0.038
Fat (g)	59.29	1.31	57.82	1.48	0.461	0.488
Carbohydrate (g)	225.11	5.77	213.77	5.17	0.143	0.300
Dietary fibre a (g)	7.61	0.28	6.83	0.21	0.027	0.049
Vitamin A (μgRE b )	481.72	26.51	543.14	42.79	0.240	0.385
Thiamine (mg)	0.81	0.03	0.87	0.07	0.440	0.466
Riboflavin (mg)	0.93	0.05	0.91	0.05	0.774	0.714
Niacin (mgNE c )	11.18	0.32	10.97	0.32	0.641	0.790
Vitamin C (mg)	63.95	2.42	66.70	3.21	0.505	0.715
Vitamin E (mgα-TE d )	19.08	0.48	19.14	0.60	0.941	0.820
Calcium (mg)	443.05	22.87	446.17	24.42	0.926	0.975
Magnesium (mg)	230.54	6.72	210.49	5.35	0.020	0.059
Iron a (mg)	17.29	0.52	15.67	0.41	0.014	0.038
Zinc a (mg)	9.33	0.45	8.31	0.24	0.044	0.046
Copper a (mg)	1.48	0.04	1.62	0.09	0.128	0.157

^a indicates significant differences between non-picky eating and picky eating groups (p < 0.05).

^b Retinol equivalent;

^c Niacin equivalent;

^d α-Tocopherol equivalent;

^e SE = standard error.

^† Results of nutrition intake from covariance analysis with adjustment for child’s gender and age.