Table 2.

Parents' opinions of the 2007 and 2019 CFGs.

Opinion	2007 CFG n = 304a	2019 CFG n = 119a
	M	M	Z	p-value	Effect size
Canada's Food Guide is a helpful resource for planning a healthy diet.	3.25	3.78	−5.09	<0.001	0.25
I trust the information provided in Canada's Food Guide.	3.20	4.00	−8.00	<0.001	0.39
I find Canada's Food Guide difficult to understand.	2.31	2.09	−2.33	<0.05	0.12
I find Canada's Food Guide easy to follow.	3.50	3.89	−4.52	<0.001	0.22
I find it difficult to feed my children according to Canada's Food Guide.	2.95	2.44	−5.16	<0.001	0.25
Canada's Food Guide is representative of my culture and our traditional foods.	3.28	3.61	−3.25	<0.001	0.16

1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neither agree nor disagree, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly Agree.

^aNumbers differ slightly due to missing data in the opinion section.