Table 6.

Regression on factors affecting perception of a healthy meal^*

(Regression coefficients)

	NMs (n 101)		OMs (n 101)		Overall
Variables	B	P	B	P	B	P
Age	0·056	<0·001	0·046	0·026	0·061	<0·001
Weight	−0·004	0·603	0·006	0·552	0·001	0·889
Height	0·005	0·609	0·016	0·163	0·012	0·124
BMI	0·033	0·284	0·033	0·923	0·024	0·245
Exercise time*	0·001	<0·001	0·000	0·494	0·001	0·003
Eating breakfast	0·448	0·013	0·698	<0·001	0·661	<0·001
Dietary supplement*	0·059	0·161	0·194	0·001	0·120	0·001
Read nutrition label*	0·690	0·267	0·542	0·007	0·711	0·001
Nutrition guideline
Eat a variety of foods	0·469	<0·001	0·499	<0·001	0·599	<0·001
Balance food and physical activity	0·270	0·007	0·484	<0·001	0·433	<0·001
Grains, vegetables and fruit	0·511	<0·001	0·544	<0·001	0·605	<0·001
Fat, saturated fat and cholesterol	−0·330	0·003	−0·662	<0·001	−0·580	<0·001
Sugars	−0·350	0·001	−0·551	<0·001	−0·530	<0·001
Salt and Na	−0·237	0·010	−0·477	<0·001	−0·422	<0·001

NMs, nutrition major students; OMs, non-nutrition major students.

^*Regression analyses indicated that there were some different factors affecting perception of a healthy meal between NMs and OMs (P < 0·05, n 202).