Table 3.

The associations between family meals’ frequency, parental diet quality, and children’s food consumption

	Family meals’ frequency β (SE)			Parental diet quality β (SE)
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Children’s food consumption (g/day)
Milk and milk productsa
Boys	0.172 (0.04)*	0.096 (0.04)	0.095 (0.02)	0.164 (0.03)*
Girls	0.144 (0.04)**	0.119 (0.02)	0.140 (0.02)	0.182 (0.01)**
Grain bread and BF cerealsb
Boys	0.090 (0.02)	0.180 (0.03)	0.100 (0.10)	0.132 (0.01)*
Girls	0.154 (0.09)	0.160 (0.09)	0.097 (0.02)	0.125 (0.06)*
Fruits
Boys	0.166 (0.05)	0.136 (0.07)	0.149 (0.10)	0.231 (0.02)***
Girls	0.140 (0.05)	0.113 (0.04)**	0.106 (0.05)**	0.103 (0.02)*
Vegetables
Boys   Girls	0.171 (0.08)	0.126 (0.04)*	0.148 (0.06)**	0.109 (0.01)**
Girls	0.079 (0.06)	0.123 (0.01)	0.126 (0.02)	0.271 (0.00)***
Legumes
Boys	0.084 (0.08)	0.182 (0.08)	0.083 (0.00)	0.070 (0.03)**
Girls	0.106 (0.10)	0.143 (0.09)	0.130 (0.04)	0.052 (0.01)
Red meat
Boys   Girls	0.090 (0.08)	−0.102 (0.00)	0.095 (0.07)	−0.135 (0.00)
Girls	0.102 (0.05)	0.107 (0.09)	-0.093 (0.09)	0.090 (0.01)
White meat and poultry
Boys	0.079 (0.05)	0.121 (0.02)	0.160 (0.09)	0.036 (0.01)
Girls	0.223 (0.08)	0.092 (0.06)	0.101 (0.01)	0.100 (0.01)*
Salty snacks
Boys	−0.174 (0.01)**	−0.088 (0.10)	0.120 (0.03)	−0.194 (0.05)*
Girls	−0.136 (0.12)*	0.120 (0.06)	−0.107 (0.05)	−0.282 (0.01)***
Sweets
Boys	−0.093 (0.09)	0.079 (0.08)	0.095 (0.04)	0.101 (0.03)
Girls	−0.020 (0.05)	0.085 (0.04)	−0.103 (0.09)*	−0.183 (0.02)**
Sugar sweetened-beverages
Boys	−0.130 (0.00)	0.092 (0.08)	−0.096 (0.05)	−0.104 (0.01)
Girls	−0.129 (0.01)	−0.124 (0.03)	0.102 (0.06)	−0.217 (0.05)**

N = 1946 parents and children. Regression analyses were adjusted for parent age, gender, country, marital status, educational level, SES, and BMI of parents and children

BF breakfast, β standardized coefficient, SE standard error

*P < 0·05; **P < 0·01; ***P < 0·001 (indicate significance)

^acheese was not counted

^brice and pasta were not mentioned under grains group in the questionnaire