TABLE 3.
Proportion of school-age children reporting exact, close, and far matches reported and excluding items truly consumed at a lunchtime meal (n = 100)1
| Foods and beverages offered (number of children who truly consumed the item) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pizza (n = 100) | Carrots (n = 97) | Dip (n = 90) | Cookie (n = 98) | Yogurt (n = 84) | Water (n = 20) | Milk (n = 35) | Juice (n = 40) | |
| Exact matches, % | 24.0 | 34.0 | 18.9 | 21.4 | 26.2 | 66.7 | 5.7 | 50.0 |
| Close matches, % | 40.0 | 21.6 | 10.0 | 38.8 | 31.0 | 4.2 | 54.3 | 7.5 |
| Far matches, % | 12.0 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 |
| All matches combined, % | 76.0 | 62.9 | 28.9 | 62.2 | 57.1 | 70.8 | 62.9 | 57.5 |
| Exclusions, % | 24.0 | 37.1 | 71.1 | 37.8 | 42.9 | 29.2 | 37.1 | 42.5 |
1Proportions, or match rates, represent percentage of children who reported or excluded items in comparison to their true intake of those items.