Convenience food in the diet of children and adolescents: consumption and composition

Despite an increasing trend towards the use of convenience food, there is to date little debate on it in the nutritional sciences. In the present study, we present and evaluate data on consumption frequencies and composition of savoury convenience food in German families using data from the Dortmund...

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Published in:British journal of nutrition 2008-02, Vol.99 (2), p.345-351
Main Authors: Alexy, Ute, Sichert-Hellert, Wolfgang, Rode, Tabea, Kersting, Mathilde
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
adolescent nutrition
Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Adolescents
age
boys
Child
child nutrition
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Child, Preschool
Children
Convenience food
diet
Diet - statistics & numerical data
Diet Records
Diet Surveys
dietary carbohydrate
Dietary Carbohydrates - administration & dosage
dietary fat
Dietary Fats - administration & dosage
Dietary Proteins - administration & dosage
Dietary records
dietary surveys
Energy
Energy Intake
Feeding Behavior
Female
flavorings
food additives
Food Additives - administration & dosage
food composition
food intake
Germany
girls
Humans
ingredients
Longitudinal Studies
Macronutrients
Male
nutritive value
prepared foods
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Summary:Despite an increasing trend towards the use of convenience food, there is to date little debate on it in the nutritional sciences. In the present study, we present and evaluate data on consumption frequencies and composition of savoury convenience food in German families using data from the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) Study. The DONALD Study is an ongoing, longitudinal (open cohort) study (started 1985), collecting detailed data on diet, development, and metabolism in infants, children and adolescents. Dietary intake was measured by yearly repeated 3 d weighed dietary records (n 1558) in 554 subjects (278 boys; 276 girls), 3–18 years old, between 2003 and 2006. A total of 1345 (86%) 3 d dietary records mentioned consumption of at least one convenience food. Convenience food consumption (percentage of total food intake, g/d) increased with age from approximately 3% in the 3–8 year olds to 7% in 14–18-year-old boys and 5% in 14–18-year-old girls (P 
ISSN:0007-1145
1475-2662
DOI:10.1017/S000711450779534X