Table 2.

Adjusted mean dietary intake, by reported usual school lunch type calculated over four whole days.

	School meal (n=399)		Packed Lunch (n=1227)
	mean †	SE	mean †	SE
Energy (kJ)	7338.1	16.8	7357.3	11.1
% energy from fat	36.8	0.2	37.0	0.2
% energy from carbohydrates	48.7	0.3	48.8	0.2
% energy from protein ‡	14.6	0.1	14.2	0.1
Non-starch polysaccharides (g) ‡	11.0	0.1	10.7	0.1
Energy density ‡	7.2	0.1	7.6	0.0
Fruit (g) ‡	90.3	4.5	100.2	2.9
Vegetables (g) ‡	112.0	3.2	96.7	2.1
Fruit & Vegetables (g)	202.3	5.9	196.9	3.7
Fruit Juice (g)	139.9	7.6	134.1	4.6
Carbonated Drink (g)	83.8	5.9	81.1	3.7
Squash/cordial (g) ‡	150.1	11.4	191.0	7.1
Savoury snacks (g) ‡	10.2	0.6	14.0	0.4
Sweet snacks (g) ‡	86.2	2.4	75.5	1.5
Confectionary (g) ‡	17.7	1.0	21.5	0.6
Chips (g) ‡	37.7	1.8	30.3	1.2
Bread (g) ‡	60.2	1.6	72.0	1.0
Starchy foods (g) §	161.7	3.3	159.2	2.2
Milk (g) ∥	87.8	5.5	88.0	3.1

^†Means adjusted for Sex, BMI, SES, EI:EER ratio, and, for food types only, total energy

^‡Difference in mean All days; whole day intake between school meal and packed lunch eaters statistically significant p<0.05

^§Starchy foods include: bread, pasta, rice, couscous, noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, millet, cornmeal and other cereals not cooked in oil.

^∥Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk only