Organic food consumption during pregnancy is associated with different consumer profiles, food patterns and intake: the KOALA Birth Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To find out how the consumption of organic food during pregnancy is associated with consumer characteristics, dietary patterns and macro- and micronutrient intakes.

Design

Cross-sectional description of consumer characteristics, dietary patterns and macro- and micronutrient intakes associated with consumption of organic food during pregnancy.

Setting

Healthy, pregnant women recruited to a prospective cohort study at midwives' practices in the southern part of the Netherlands; to enrich the study with participants adhering to alternative lifestyles, pregnant women were recruited through various specific channels.

Subjects

Participants who filled in questionnaires on food frequency in gestational week 34 (n 2786). Participant groups were defined based o

SUBMITTER: Simoes-Wust AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261428 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature