Table 3. Nutrient intake of all subjects according to chewing difficulty.

Model 1: adjusted for age and gender; Model 2: adjusted for age, gender, and energy intake.

¹⁾ Normal group: those who found the chewing “moderately difficult”, “easy”, and “very easy” according to their chewing ability.

²⁾ Chewing difficult group: those who found the chewing “very difficult” or “difficult” according to their chewing ability.

³⁾ Mean ± SE

⁴⁾ Complex sample general linear regression model (t-test), P < 0.05

⁵⁾ Retinol:carotenoids=1:1