Table 8.
Percentage of infants and young children consuming desserts, sweets, sweetened beverages, and salty snacks at least once a day in Maternal Infant Nutrition Growth (MING) study
| Age group | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food/food groups | 6–8 months (n = 201) | 9–11 months (n = 235) | 12–14 months (n = 125) | 15–17 months (n = 75) | 18–20 months (n = 160) | 21–23 months (n = 110) | 24–29 months (n = 248) | 30–35 months (n = 196) |
| Any type of dessert, sweet, sweetened beverage | 14 | 23 | 38 | 37 | 33 | 44 | 44 | 42 |
| Desserts and candy | 11 | 22 | 29 | 32 | 26 | 36 | 36 | 26 |
| All cakes, pies, cookies, and pastries | 11 | 22 | 29 | 31 | 25 | 36 | 33 | 20 |
| Baby cookies, teething biscuits | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other cookies | 10 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 19 | 31 | 24 | 13 |
| Cake | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| Pies and pastries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ice cream, pudding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Other dessertsa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Candy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Other sweets | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 18 |
| Milk flavoured sweets | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Sugar, syrup, honey, preserves | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| Sweetened beverages | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Carbonated sodas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Fruit-flavored drinks | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Otherb | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Salty snacksc | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
a
Includes tea soup, glue pudding, tortoise jelly, caramel treats, mung bean cake (green bean cake), and laozao (fermented sticky rice desert).
b
Includes tea (all types).
c
Includes potato chips, popcorn, and other types of chips and salty snacks.