The importance of school lunches to the overall dietary intake of children in Sweden: a nationally representative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

School lunches have potential to foster healthy diets in all children, but data on their importance are relatively scarce. The current study aimed to describe the dietary intake from school lunches by sex and school grade, and to assess how the daily intake, school lunch intake and the daily intake provided by lunch differ by sex and parental education.

Design

Cross-sectional. All foods and drinks consumed for 1-3 weekdays were self-reported. Energy, absolute and energy-adjusted intakes of nutrients and food groups were calculated per weekday and per school lunch. Mixed-effects linear models assessed sociodemographic differences in dietary intakes. Nutrient and energy density at lunch and during the rest of the day were compared.

Setting

Seventy-nine Swedish

SUBMITTER: Eustachio Colombo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7267782 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature