Evans, CEL orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4397 and Cade, JE orcid.org/0000-0003-3421-0121 (2017) A cross-sectional assessment of food- and nutrient-based standards applied to British schoolchildren’s packed lunches. Public Health Nutrition, 20 (3). pp. 565-570. ISSN 1368-9800
Abstract
In England, standards for school meals included both foods and nutrients until 2015. School policies for packed lunches are generally food based; research is needed to determine whether these are adequate or whether a small number of nutrients would potentially improve their quality. From dietary data obtained using a weighed dietary assessment tool, a diet quality score (DQS) for packed lunches was calculated using the number of standards met out of twenty-one (eight foods and thirteen nutrients). Multilevel regression analysis determined the foods and nutrients contributing to variation in the DQS. Eighty-nine primary schools across the four regions of the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). British schoolchildren (n 1294), aged 8–9 years, taking a packed lunch. The optimal model included all eight foods and seven of the thirteen nutrients, explaining 72 % of the variance in DQS. Folate, Fe and vitamin C, together with the eight food groups, explained 70 % of DQS variation. Ideally, policies for school packed lunches should include food-based standards plus recommendations based on a small number of nutrients.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2016. This article has been accepted for publication and appears in revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Public Health Nutrition, published by Cambridge University Press. The version of record is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016002251. |
Keywords: | Dietary quality; Children; School food; Nutrients |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2016 13:42 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2017 05:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016002251 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1368980016002251 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103195 |