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Self‐reported fruit and vegetable intake of low and high socioeconomic status, urban, Guatemalan schoolchildren
Author(s) -
MontenegroBethancourt Gabriela,
Solomons Noel W.,
Doak Colleen M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.6.a1101-a
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , environmental health , food intake , total energy , population , food science , zoology , demography , chemistry , biology , psychology , sociology , displacement (psychology) , psychotherapist
The fruit and vegetable (F&V) food‐groups are an important component of the diet. We estimated the 1‐day total food and beverage intake for 3rd and 4th grade children of higher (HSES) and lower socioeconomic status (LSES) in Quetzaltenango, a city in the western highlands of Guatemala. Our focus was the contribution of fruits and vegetables to the diet in this age‐group. We enrolled 449 elementary schoolchildren (LSES, n=219; HSES, n=230) of both sexes, to prospectively create a pictorial record of all beverage, food and snack items consumed over a single 24‐h period, complemented by a face‐to‐face dietitian interview to quantify the intake. Non‐fruit/non‐vegetable portions of mixed dishes were included in weight calculations for items. A total of 249 food items were reported: 230 by HSES, and 200 by LSES (with 180 in common). For HSES, 77 were F&V (33.4%), and for LSES, 81(40.5%). Median F&V intake was 335.0 g, with 56.4% of the sample exceeding the recommended 400 g on the day of record. In relation to the 7% of total energy recommended to be constituted by F&V (WCRF/AICR, 1997), the combined population consumed 18.6% of their energy from these food‐groups. Funded by Sight and Life and AICR