Low-calorie- and calorie-sweetened beverages: diet quality, food intake, and purchase patterns of US household consumers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have investigated the diet quality of consumers of low-calorie-sweetened (LCS) and calorie-sweetened (CS) beverages.

Objective

The objective was to examine the dietary quality and adherence to dietary purchasing and consumption patterns of beverage consumers from 2000 to 2010.

Design

We analyzed purchases for 140,352 households from the Homescan longitudinal data set 2000-2010 and dietary intake from NHANES 2003-2010 (n = 34,393). We defined mutually exclusive consumer profiles as main exposures: LCS beverages, CS beverages, LCS & CS beverages, and non/low consumers. As main outcomes, we explored dietary quality by using total energy and macronutrients (kcal/d). We performed factor analyses and applied factor scores to derive dietary patterns as

SUBMITTER: Piernas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3927690 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature