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. 2020 Nov 25;20:101253. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101253

Table 2.

Number (%) of students in central Virginia Title I elementary schools receiving universal free meals who select each beverage at school lunch. Results are presented overall, by sex, and by student grade for each sex.

Overall Overall
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
n = 1155 n = 528 n = 627 n = 119 n = 135 n = 100 n = 111 n = 106 n = 138 n = 119 n = 139 n = 84 n = 104
100% fruit juice 308 (26.7) 157 (29.7) 151 (24.1) 36 (30.3) 35 (26.0) 32 (32.0) 23 (20.7) 26 (24.5) 33 (23.9) 28 (23.5) 23 (16.5) 35 (41.7) 37 (35.6)
FF SS milk 695 (60.2) 330 (62.5) 365 (58.2) 85 (71.4) 91 (67.4) 62 (62.0) 67 (60.4) 65 (61.3) 72 (52.2) 66 (55.5) 67 (48.2) 52 (61.9) 68 (65.4)
Chocolate 543 (47.0) 262 (49.6) 281 (44.8) 67 (56.3) 62 (45.9) 45 (45.0) 49 (44.1) 57 (53.8) 57 (41.3) 54 (45.4) 52 (37.4) 39 (46.4) 61 (58.7)
Strawberry 152 (13.2) 68 (12.9) 84 (13.4) 18 (15.1) 29 (21.5) 17 (17.0) 18 (16.2) 8 (7.5) 15 (10.9) 12 (10.1) 15 (10.8) 13 (15.5) 7 (6.7)
FF/LF white milk 130 (11.3) 65 (12.3) 65 (10.4) 16 (13.4) 16 (11.9) 15 (15.0) 16 (14.4) 15 (14.2) 17 (12.3) 11 (9.2) 12 (8.6) 8 (9.5) 4 (3.8)
Beverages selected
 0 262 (22.7) 106 (20.1) 156 (24.9) 14 (11.8) 25 (18.5) 19 (19.0) 23 (20.7) 21 (19.8) 35 (25.4) 33 (27.7) 53 (38.1) 19 (22.6) 20 (19.2)
 1 654 (56.6) 293 (55.5) 361 (57.6) 72 (60.5) 78 (57.8) 53 (53.0) 72 (64.9) 65 (61.3) 84 (60.9) 67 (56.3) 70 (50.4) 36 (42.9) 59 (56.7)
 2 237 (20.5) 127 (24.1) 110 (17.5) 33 (27.7) 32 (23.7) 28 (28.0) 16 (14.4) 19 (17.9) 19 (13.8) 19 (16.0) 16 (11.5) 28 (33.3) 25 (24.0)
 3 2 (0.2) 2 (0.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (0.9) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.2) 0 (0.0)

FF = fat-free; SS = sugar sweetened; LF = low-fat.