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. 2020 Apr 27;23(14):2602–2614. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020000087

Table 5.

Achieving intake frequency above the median for fruit, vegetables and fruit juice among food insecure adults

Fruit (n 2551) Vegetable (n 2551) Fruit juice (n 2551)
Adjusted OR 95 % CI Adjusted OR 95 % CI Adjusted OR 95 % CI
Overall
 Food secure REF REF REF
 Food insecure 0·59*** 0·47, 0·74 0·68** 0·54, 0·86 1·39** 1·10, 1·75
Sex
 Male N/A 0·86 0·62, 1·20 1·15 0·83, 1·60
 Female 0·53*** 0·39, 0·73 1·66** 1·21, 2·28
Ethnicity
 White British N/A N/A 1·50** 1·16, 1·93
 White other 1·55 0·53, 4·51
 Mixed 0·74 0·20, 2·75
 Asian 1·18 0·44, 3·18
 Black 0·11* 0·02, 0·62
 Other & unknown 4·20 0·60, 29·16
Age groups
 18–24 0·55* 0·31, 0·96 0·61 0·34, 1·11 N/A
 25–30 0·62** 0·45, 0·85 1·02 0·74, 1·41
 31–39 0·51** 0·31, 0·86 0·59* 0·36, 0·98
 40–49 0·70 0·42, 1·17 0·83 0·50, 1·38
 50–59 0·39** 0·21, 0·75 0·35** 0·17, 0·71
 60–64 0·62 0·19, 2·00 0·56 0·17, 1·83
Household composition
 No other adults, no children N/A N/A N/A
 Other adults, no children
 No other adults, with children
 Other adults, with children

N/A, not applicable because no significant interaction was detected.

Logistic regression models mutually adjusted for sex, age, ethnicity and household composition.

* P ≤ 0·05, **P ≤ 0·01, ***P ≤ 0·001.