Table 2.
The impact of Dish of the Day menu and sequence alteration in food selection by gender including only men and women. The “All”-category (n = 163) includes one participant in T1 who was unable to complete the questionnaire and two participants (one in T3 and one in T4) who reported their gender as “Other”.
| T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | Share | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu | - | Standard | DoD | Standard | DoD | - |
| Order of main dishes | - | MMC first | MMC first | FBC first | FBC first | - |
| n | All | 41 | 42 | 40 | 40 | 100.0% (n = 163) |
| Women | 21 | 29 | 25 | 22 | 59.5% (n = 97) | |
| Men | 19 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 38.7% (n = 63) | |
| Chose FBC | All | 17.1% (n = 7) | 35.7% (n = 15) | 17.5% (n = 7) | 15.0% (n = 6) | 21.4% (n = 35) |
| Women | 28.6% (n = 6) | 37.9% (n = 11) | 24.0% (n = 6) | 22.7% (n = 5) | 28.9% (n = 28) | |
| Men | 5.3% (n = 1) | 30.8% (n = 4) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 5.9% (n = 1) | 9.5% (n = 6) | |
| Chose both | All | 36.6% (n = 15) | 26.2% (n = 11) | 37.5% (n = 15) | 67.5% (n = 27) | 41.7% (n = 68) |
| Women | 33.3% (n = 7) | 27.6% (n = 8) | 40.0% (n = 10) | 63.6% (n = 14) | 40.2% (n = 39) | |
| Men | 36.8% (n = 7) | 23.1% (n = 3) | 35.7% (n = 5) | 70.6% (n = 12) | 42.6% (n = 27) | |
| Chose MMC | All | 46.3% (n = 19) | 38.1% (n = 16) | 45.0% (n = 18) | 17.5% (n = 7) | 36.8% (n = 60) |
| Women | 38.1% (n = 8) | 34.5% (n = 10) | 36.0% (n = 9) | 13.6% (n = 3) | 30.9% (n = 30) | |
| Men | 57.9% (n = 11) | 46.2% (n = 6) | 64.3% (n = 9) | 23.5% (n = 4) | 47.6% (n = 30) | |
| Mean meal weight in grams (SD) | All | 441 (145) | 390 (94) | 406 (125) | 448 (175) | - |
| Women | 373 (104) | 371 (90) | 355 (89) | 386 (118) | - | |
| Men | 522 (147) | 433 (92) | 482 (139) | 530 (209) | - | |
| Mean share of salad in the total meal weight (SD) | All | 0.31 (0.11) | 0.35 (0.09) | 0.32 (0.11) | 0.31 (0.10) | - |
| Women | 0.38 (0.11) | 0.35 (0.10) | 0.31 (0.07) | 0.33 (0.09) | - | |
| Men | 0.25 (0.07) | 0.34 (0.09) | 0.32 (0.17) | 0.28 (0.11) | - | |
| Mean share of FBC in the total meal weight (SD) | All | 0.21 (0.26) | 0.29 (0.28) | 0.24 (0.26) | 0.30 (0.20) | - |
| Women | 0.27 (0.30) | 0.31 (0.28) | 0.30 (0.28) | 0.35 (0.21) | - | |
| Men | 0.15 (0.21) | 0.26 (0.27) | 0.09 (0.14) | 0.23 (0.16) | - | |
| Mean share of MMC in the meal weight (SD) | All | 0.47 (0.27) | 0.36 (0.30) | 0.45 (0.28) | 0.39 (0.22) | - |
| Women | 0.35 (0.26) | 0.34 (0.30) | 0.39 (0.28) | 0.32 (0.22) | - | |
| Men | 0.61 (0.22) | 0.40 (0.30) | 0.58 (0.23) | 0.49 (0.19) | - |
DoD = Dish of the Day; FBC = fava bean casserole; MMC = minced meat casserole; SD = standard deviation; T = treatment.