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Table 3 Daily intake of reported absolute amounts of food groups consumed and OMD recommendations (Kersting et al. 2005), presented by gender, separately for adolescent DS users and non-users

From: Questionable advisability of vitamin and mineral dietary supplement use in adolescents

  

Males N = 162

 
  

Non-users

N = 108

DS Users

N = 44

FOOD GROUPS

(g/day)

OMD

(2005)

M (5th – 95th percentil)

p

M (5th – 95th percentil)

p

p1

Vegetables

350

148

0–550

0.000

199

0–1023

0.05

0.06

Fruits

350

119

2–450

0.000

124

1–1350

0.12

0.03

Cereals/products

350

275

65–1228

0.05

320

40–1210

0.77

0.53

Pasta/rice/potatoes

350

151

29–586

0.000

205

19–598

0.000

0.12

Milk/products

500

241

37–1273

0.000

339

55–1590

0.50

0.04

Meat/products

85

168

39–633

0.000

229

21–1386

0.000

0.13

Eggs (g/week)

140

98

0–634

0.75

147

0–1838

0.26

0.10

Fish (g/week)

100

74

0–451

0.78

74

0–1278

0.99

0.90

Sweet/salty snacks

95

194

38–801

0.000

260

38–1694

0.000

0.13

Beverages

1500

929

326–2885

0.000

1355

210–3578

0.10

0.18

   

Females N = 180

  
  

Non-users

N = 121

DS Users

N = 49

FOOD GROUPS

(g/day)

OMD

(2005)

M (5th – 95th percentil)

p

M (5th – 95th percentil)

p

p1

Vegetables

300

126

5–529

0.000

149

20–965

0.02

0.05

Fruits

300

119

6–900

0.000

150

10–900

0.01

0.51

Cereals/products

280

193

25–696

0.000

165

19–540

0.000

0.26

Pasta/rice/potatoes

300

116

23–323

0.000

109

24–457

0.000

0.85

Milk/products

450

184

20–802

0.000

167

18–835

0.000

0.64

Meat/products

75

100

9–301

0.000

67

6–282

0.60

0.08

Eggs (g/week)

140

49

0–518

0.002

49

0–501

0.000

0.37

Fish (g/week)

100

69

0–204

0.000

37

0–830

0.002

0.95

Sweet/salty snacks

75

143

17–1133

0.000

140

15–1041

0.000

0.69

Beverages1

1400

763

117–2611

0.000

880

100–3026

0.000

0.41

  1. p – exact p-value calculated using the non-parametric Wilcoxon signed rank test for one sample for each food group intake and the OMD recommendations
  2. p1 – exact p-value calculated using Mann-Whitney U-test for the intake of each food group between non-users and DS users
  3. 1 Only liquids from beverages, not liquids from food, are included in the calculation of liquid intake