Table 6.

Associations of food security items with consumption of vegetables and salads. Figures are frequencies (row percent) except where indicated.

Item (frequency)	Eats vegetables ≥5–6 days per week (row %)	Odds ratio (95% CI)a	P value
Food secure (397)	202 (51)	-
Food insecure (134)	37 (28)	0.43 (0.24 to 0.77)	0.004
3 Balanced meal (162)	48 (30)	0.42 (025 to 0.70)	0.001
2 Food last (109)	30 (28)	0.44 (0.23 to 0.84)	0.012
5 Skip meals (93)	24 (26)	0.42 (0.22 to 0.82)	0.010
7 Eat less (75)	16 (21)	0.32 (0.14 to 0.73)	0.007
8 How often (70)	16 (23)	0.36 (0.16 to 0.82)	0.014
10 Hungry (31)	9 (29)	0.51 (0.17 to 1.49)	0.218

^a relative odds of consuming vegetables ≥ 5–6 days per week if affirmative, adjusted for age, gender, ethnic group and clustering by household