Table 5.

Food intakes and % of consumers across tertiles of NRF 9.3 score in children and adolescents.

	Children and Adolescents (5–17) years (n = 3283)
	T1 (n = 1094)			T2 (n = 1095)			T3 (n = 1094)
	Mean	SD	% Consumers	Mean	SD	% Consumers	Mean	SD	% Consumers	p Value *	p Value **
Tea coffee and water (mL)	146.9	165	57	152	168	61	163.5	174	66	0.323	0.541
Semi skimmed milk (mL)	74.4	95	54	90.2	96	64	104.2	102	66	˂0.001	˂0.001
Sugar preserves and sweet spreads (g)	6.6	10	46	6.4	11	46	5.4	10	43	0.001	0.001
High-fibre breakfast cereals (g)	13.7	30	31	22	36	46	28.2	38	57	0.001	0.001
White bread (g)	30.7	36	53	25.2	32	47	22.4	33	40	0.020	0.036
Fruit (g)	23.6	54	23	42	61	42	54.7	63	53	0.327	0.331
Other breakfast cereals (g)	15.9	21	45	16.5	20	49	17.3	21	51	0.225	0.385
Reduced fat spread (g)	3.5	6	28	4	7	34	4	7	34	0.207	0.531
Fruit juice (mL)	60.8	110	28	69.3	105	35	58.6	97	32	0.016	0.025
Biscuits (g)	9.2	19	27	8.1	16	27	6.4	14	23	0.006	0.008
Whole milk (mL)	40.3	83	26	40.3	83	25	41.5	83	25	0.237	0.279
Eggs and egg dishes (g)	8.5	27	12	12	32	16	13	33	17	0.561	0.513
Miscellaneous (g)	4.3	18	19	3.3	18	16	3.6	24	17	0.003	0.006
Butter (g)	2.7	7	18	2.1	6	16	1.5	5	12	0.002	0.003
Bacon and ham (g)	9.0	22	18	6.1	17	14	4.5	15	10	0.152	0.265
Brown granary and wheatgerm bread (g)	5.6	19	9	8	22	15	9.4	23	17	0.172	0.236
Buns, cakes, pastries & fruit pies (g)	11.2	28	17	14	33	21	7.9	22	14	0.023	0.036
Wholemeal bread (g)	3.1	15	5	4.7	16	10	7.9	20	16	0.002	0.005
Soft drinks not low calorie (mL)	105.9	166	36	49.1	115	19	26.1	86	11	˂0.001	0.001
Soft drinks low calorie (mL)	53.4	114	21	59.4	122	23	61	123	24	0.923	0.602

Tertile 1: Low DQ; Tertile 2: Medium DQ; Tertile 3: High DQ. p * unadjusted (ANOVA). p ** adjusted for National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (housing, employment, education) (ANCOVA). Food groups were Log10 transformed for normalization purposes prior to analysis, data shown as absolute values. No statistical tests were carried out for % of consumers. p < 0.05 is considered significant.