Table 4.

Current toddlers’ dietary habits and maternal concerns about toddlers’ feeding according to the age group and use of added salt, sugar, and both salt and sugar in the Polish sample (n = 4110).

Variables	12–24 Months (n = 2680)						25–36 Months (n = 1430)
	AS		ASu		AS&Su		AS		ASu		AS&Su
	Yes 52.8%	No 47.2%	Yes 34.7%	No 65.3%	Yes 26.8%	No 73.2%	Yes 74.4%	No 25.6%	Yes 59.0%	No 41.0%	Yes 50.8%	No 49.2%
Dietary pattern:
→Pro-health	35.1	54.6 ***	37	48.1 ***	31.6	48.9 ***	28.9	44.8 ***	32.6	40.9 ***	26.6	39.5 ***
→Western-like	35.3	14.2	38.6	18.3	43.3	18.8	55.4	35.5	42.5	22.4	59.8	40.5
→Non-eaters	29.6	31.1	24.3	33.5	25.1	32.3	15.8	19.7	24.9	36.8	13.6	20
Eating at least one meal with the family	97.5	97.1	98.4	96.7 **	98.2	97.0	98.3	97.3	99.2	99.3 **	98.6	97.4
Eating meals separately	50.2	49.4	46.7	51.5 *	47.2	50.8	51.6	44.8 *	35.2	41.5 *	52.6	47.0 *
Eating while watching TV 1	34.1	19.8 ***	32.9	24.4 ***	37.2	23.8 ***	49.3	36.3 ***	13.4	8.5 ***	51.5	40.3 ***
Eating during playing	9.9	9.1	11.7	8.3 **	10.9	9.0	12.3	12.6	12.7	11.9	12.3	12.5
None concern	70.8	76.8 ***	70.7	75.2 **	69.1	75.3 ***	68.4	76.2 **	67.6	74.4 **	65.8	75.1 ***
Toddler eats too little	17.6	13.9 **	17.3	15.1	18.9	14.7 **	14.8	11.5	14.6	12.9	15.8	11.9
Toddler eats too much	7.2	6.9	7.3	6.9	7.1	7.0	4.5	4.4	4.2	4.9	4.0	5.0
Toddler eats same thing for longer period	20.2	15.7 **	20.8	16.7 **	22.3	16.6 ***	25.8	21.9	26.1	23.0	27.4	22.2 *
Toddler does not eat vegetables	19.4	11.9 ***	18.6	14.4 **	20.6	14.1 ***	25.5	18.3 ***	26.0	20.3 **	27.1	20.0 **
Toddler does not eat novel foods	16.3	11.5 ***	16.0	13.0 *	17.4	12.8 **	27.6	21.6 *	28.6	22.5 **	29.9	22.2 ***

¹ including smartphones and tablets; AS—added salt; ASu—added sugar; AS&Su—added salt and sugar; * p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.01; *** p ≤ 0.001.