Table 2.

Dietary intake of nutrients according to the tertiles (T) of the DAQS

	All = 270 Mean ± SD	Tertiles of DAQS			P value	P trend
		T1 (n = 34)	T2 (n = 132)	T3 (n = 104)
Energy (1000kcal/d)	2.39 ± 0.96	1.44 ± 0.36	2.03 ± 0.55	3.11 ± 10.0	<0.001	<0.001
Carbohydrates (g/d/1000kcal)	142 ± 20.1	149 ± 60.88	144 ± 19.3	137 ± 20.5	<0.01	<0.01
Protein (g/d/1000kcal)	38.2 ± 8.82	35.7 ± 7.10	35.6 ± 6.82	42.0 ± 10.0	<0.001	<0.001
Total fat (g/d/1000kcal)	33.2 ± 8.35	31.3 ± 7.56	33.4 ± 7.62	33.4 ± 7.62	0.41	0.22
Thiamin (mg) (mg/d/1000kcal)	0.78 ± 0.16	0.84 ± 0.12	0.79 ± 0.16	0.75 ± 0.15	<0.001	<0.001
Riboflavin (mg/d/1000kcal)	0.73 ± 0.21	0.64 ± 0.16	0.68 ± 0.17	0.82 ± 0.24	<0.001	<0.001
Niacin (mg/d/1000kcal)	9.37 ± 1.82	9.49 ± 1.65	9.11 ± 1.70	9.67 ± 1.98	0.06	0.64
Vitamin B6 (mg/d/1000kcal)	0.62 ± 0.19	0.56 ± 0.16	0.61 ± 0.19	0.66 ± 0.20	0.02	0.01
Folate (µg/d/1000kcal)	133 ± 38.8	126 ± 32.2	129 ± 39.2	141 ± 39.3	0.03	0.07
Vitamin D (µg/d/1000kcal)	0.97 ± 0.83	0.73 ± 0.51	0.82 ± 0.60	1.24 ± 1.07	<0.001	<0.01
Vitamin E (mg/d/1000kcal)	1.89 ± 1.03	1.73 ± 0.46	1.78 ± 0.60	2.07 ± 1.47	0.07	0.10
Vitamin A (µg/d/1000kcal)	582 ± 401	316 ± 63.3	632 ± 480	598 ± 311	<0.001	<0.001
Vitamin C(mg/d/1000kcal)	60.0 ± 28.3	49.6 ± 18.9	64.0 ± 30.6	58.1 ± 26.7	0.02	0.13
Zn (mg/d/1000kcal)	4.09 ± 1.03	3.91 ± 0.85	3.71 ± 0.87	4.63 ± 1.05	<0.001	<0.001
Se (µg/d/1000kcal)	0.02 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 0.01	0.03	0.07
Fe (mg/d/1000kcal)	9.21 ± 3.16	10.1 ± 3.73	9.10 ± 2.91	9.07 ± 3.28	0.21	0.09
Ca (mg/d/1000kcal)	433 ± 152	376 ± 76.8	409 ± 125	481 ± 184	<0.001	<0.01
Magnesium (mg/d/1000kcal)	122 ± 24.0	119 ± 19.0	117 ± 25.1	128 ± 22.9	<0.01	0.08

P‐value less than 0.05 was considered significant. Values are based on mean ± standard deviation. P_value obtained from one‐way ANOVA test.

Abbreviation: DAQS: dietary antioxidant quality score.