Fruit consumption by age, sex, ethnicity and parents' educational status
| Baseline characteristics | Fruit consumed | |||||
| Fresh apple | Apple juice | Banana | ||||
| Subjects n | FS per day % | Subjects n | JS per day % | Subjects n | FS per day % | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 1239 | 317 (25.6) | 1215 | 263 (21.7) | 1232 | 217 (17.6) |
| Female | 1328 | 351 (26.4) | 1305 | 287 (22.0) | 1313 | 217 (16.5) |
| p-value# | 0.04 | 0.73 | 0.81 | |||
| Ethnic group | ||||||
| White British | 1439 | 349 (24.3) | 1315 | 71 (5.4) | 1434 | 185 (12.9) |
| Other British | 344 | 90 (26.2) | 310 | 42 (13.6) | 339 | 66 (19.5) |
| Other | 639 | 187 (29.3) | 592 | 52 (8.8) | 628 | 146 (23.3) |
| p-value# | 0.04 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | |||
| Parents' educational status | ||||||
| Less than A level | 1300 | 315 (24.2) | 1277 | 214 (16.8) | 1295 | 200 (15.4) |
| A level and above | 1267 | 353 (27.9) | 1248 | 337 (27.0) | 1250 | 234 (18.7) |
| p-value# | 0.0001 | 0.001 | 0.03 | |||
| Age group yrs | ||||||
| 5–6 | 258 | 64 (24.8) | 239 | 11 (4.6) | 257 | 41 (16.0) |
| 7 | 657 | 170 (25.9) | 597 | 56 (9.4) | 647 | 116 (18.0) |
| 8 | 659 | 160 (24.3) | 603 | 47 (7.8) | 652 | 106 (16.3) |
| 9 | 600 | 173 (28.8) | 546 | 38 (7.0) | 597 | 104 (17.4) |
| 10–11 | 374 | 94 (25.1) | 346 | 35 (10.1) | 373 | 61 (16.4) |
| p-value# | 0.66 | 0.46 | 0.58 | |||
Data are presented as n (%), unless otherwise stated. FS: fruit serving; JS: juice serving. The daily fruit and juice serving represent the proportions of children having at least one fruit or juice serving a day, respectively. #: calculated using Pearson Chi-squared tests.