Table 5. Scores of appetite for food groups of women with breast cancer (BC) in the beginning (T0), intermediate (T1) and end (T2) of chemotherapy (n = 55).

Food categories	T0	T1	T2	p-value
	Median (p25–p75)	Median (p25–p75)	Median (p25–p75)
Starchy foods (breads, cookies, potato, rice)	5.0 (2.0–8.0)	6.0 (1.5–9.25)	7.0 (4.0–10.0)	0.211
Legumes (chick peas, beans, peas, lentils)	0.0 (0.0–5.0)	0.0 (0.0–6.0)	0.0 (0.0–8.0)	0.970
Vegetables (pumpkin, chayote, tomato, carrot)	6.0 (0.0–8.0)	0.0 (0.0–9.25)	0.0 (0.0–8.25)	0.553
Meat, poultry, fish and eggs	0.0 (0.0–8.0)	0.0 (0.0–8.0)	0.0 (0.0–7.25)	0.749
Soups, broths and scalded	0.0 (0.0–7.0)	0.0 (0.0–8.25)	0.0 (0.0–9.0)	0.875
Fruits	7.0 (4.0–10.0)	8.0 (5.75–10.0)	8.0 (5.0–10.0)	0.525
Fruit juices	8.0 (5.0–10.0)	8.0 (3.75–10.0)	8.5 (6.5–10.0)	0.587
Milk	0.0 (0.0–8.0)	3.5 (0.0–8.0)	1.5 (0.0–8.5)	0.753
Dairy products (yogurt, cheese)	5.0 (0.0–8.0)	6.0 (0.0–9.0)	7.0 (0.0–10.0)	0.517
Salty foods (snacks, nuts, olives)	5.0ª (0.0–9.0)	8.0ᵇ (4.75–10.0)	8.0ᵇ (6.0–10.0)	0.004
Sweet foods (sweet guava, ice cream, dulce de leche)	3.0 (0.0–9.0)	5.0 (0.0–8.0)	5.5 (0.0–8.0)	0.541
Acid foods (lemon popsicle, acerola juice)	3.0 (0.0–6.0)	5.0 (0.0–8.0)	5.0 (0.0–8.0)	0.262
Bitter foods (jilo, chicory, eggplant)	4.0 (0.0–8.0)	6.5 (0.0–10.0)	6.5 (0.0–9.25)	0.212
Spicy foods (ketchup, pepper)	0.0ª (0.0–4.0)	4.0ᵇ (0.0–8.25)	2.5ª,b (0.0–7.0)	0.036
Overall appetite	3.5ª (0.0–5.25)	5.0ª,b (0.0–6.7)	5.25ᵇ (0.0–7.25)	0.0028†

T0, day of the first cycle of CT infusion; T1, day of the intermediate cycle of CT infusion and T2, day of the last cycle of CT infusion. Medians horizontally followed by different letters differ statistically, as post-hoc test at 5% probability (Kruskal-Wallis test + Dunn’s post-hoc).

†Friedman test + Dunn’s post-hoc. For the measurement of appetite, a visual analogue scale (VAS) (0 to 10 cm) was used.