Gender differences in perceived food healthiness and food avoidance in a Swedish population-based survey: a cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this work was to study potential gender differences in perceived food healthiness and food avoidance in a population-representative sample of the Swedish adult population.

Methods

A questionnaire regarding diet and health was posted to 2000 randomly selected residents in Sweden, aged 20-65 years. Questions were posed regarding which foods or food components the participants avoided due to perceived unhealthiness and how healthy they believed the food items to be. The pre-specified food components included sugar, carbohydrate, gluten, lactose, dairy, fat, saturated fat, red meat, white flour, salt, alcohol and food additives (specifically glutamate, sweetening, preservative and coloring agents). Chi square tests were used to study differences in perceive

SUBMITTER: Barebring L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7772926 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature