Table 2.

Whole grain intake at baseline and after 12 weeks of intervention

	High-phytate bread group (n = 31)			Low-phytate bread group (n = 24)			p value (between groups)
	Baseline	During intervention	p value3 (within group)	Baseline	During intervention	p value (within group)
Total WG intake (g/day)	75 ± 47	111 ± 27	0.010	81 ± 51	112 ± 35	0.076	0.696
WG intake in connection with main meals (g/day)	69 ± 43	90 ± 34	0.046	76 ± 49	93 ± 41	0.263	0.622
WG intake when excluding WG from bread (g/day)	42 ± 28	31 ± 28	0.014	43 ± 39	34 ± 34	0.003	0.350
WG intake from total dietary bread (g/day)	27 ± 25	76 ± 6	0.001	30 ± 23	76 ± 6	0.001	0.760
WG intake from bread alone in connection with main meals (g/day)	23 ± 21	55 ± 19	0.001	24 ± 23	55 ± 18	0.001	0.629

Data are presented as geometric mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM, as italicized values)

Bold values indicate the level of significance p ≤ 0.05