Students choosing fat-free chocolate milk during school lunch consume more calories, total sugar, protein, minerals and vitamins at lunch.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine how milk consumption varies by milk choice and measure the association of milk choice on the nutritional and energetic content of National School Lunch Program (NSLP) lunches.

Design

An observational plate waste study using the Digital Photography of Foods Method.

Setting

Data were collected from two suburban South Carolina schools in one district during February and March 2013.

Participants

Totally, 968 NSLP lunches selected by 619 kindergarten to fifth grade students.

Results

Most students chose chocolate milk (75 %). A multinomial logit model indicated milk choice varied significantly by sociodemographic characteristics. An ordinary least square regression indicated that consumption rates of low-fat white milk were 8·5 % lower tha

SUBMITTER: Peckham JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195581 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature