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The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites
Monitoring the nutritional environment is important to help inform future initiatives to improve access to healthy foods. The objective was to examine the nutritional quality of lunch meals eaten at 15 worksite canteens and then to compare with results from a study conducted 10 years before. The dup...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30332823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101518 |
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author | Lassen, Anne D. Knuthsen, Pia Bysted, Anette Andersen, Elisabeth W. |
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description | Monitoring the nutritional environment is important to help inform future initiatives to improve access to healthy foods. The objective was to examine the nutritional quality of lunch meals eaten at 15 worksite canteens and then to compare with results from a study conducted 10 years before. The duplicate-portion-technique with subsequent chemical analysis was used to quantify 240 customers’ lunch intake. Estimated mean energy intake was 2.1 MJ/meal (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.9 to 2.4 g/meal) and estimated energy density 599 kJ/100 g (95% CI 550 to 653 kJ/100 g). Energy density of the male participants’ meals were significantly higher compared with the female participants’ meals (+55 kJ/100 g, 95% CI: +12 to +98 kJ/100 g, p = 0.012), whereas no gender differences were found in macronutrient distribution or fruit and vegetable intake. Compared to the study conducted 10 years before several significant changes were observed, including an increase in mean estimated intake of fruit and vegetables (+38 g/meal, 95% CI: 19 to 57 g/meal, p < 0.001) and a decrease in energy density (−76 kJ/100 g, 95% CI: −115, −37 kJ/100 g, p < 0.001). In conclusion, this study suggests an equalization of gender differences in fruit and vegetable intake and a possible improvement in the nutritional quality of canteen lunch meals over a 10-year period. |
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spelling | pubmed-62132442018-11-06 The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites Lassen, Anne D. Knuthsen, Pia Bysted, Anette Andersen, Elisabeth W. Nutrients Article Monitoring the nutritional environment is important to help inform future initiatives to improve access to healthy foods. The objective was to examine the nutritional quality of lunch meals eaten at 15 worksite canteens and then to compare with results from a study conducted 10 years before. The duplicate-portion-technique with subsequent chemical analysis was used to quantify 240 customers’ lunch intake. Estimated mean energy intake was 2.1 MJ/meal (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.9 to 2.4 g/meal) and estimated energy density 599 kJ/100 g (95% CI 550 to 653 kJ/100 g). Energy density of the male participants’ meals were significantly higher compared with the female participants’ meals (+55 kJ/100 g, 95% CI: +12 to +98 kJ/100 g, p = 0.012), whereas no gender differences were found in macronutrient distribution or fruit and vegetable intake. Compared to the study conducted 10 years before several significant changes were observed, including an increase in mean estimated intake of fruit and vegetables (+38 g/meal, 95% CI: 19 to 57 g/meal, p < 0.001) and a decrease in energy density (−76 kJ/100 g, 95% CI: −115, −37 kJ/100 g, p < 0.001). In conclusion, this study suggests an equalization of gender differences in fruit and vegetable intake and a possible improvement in the nutritional quality of canteen lunch meals over a 10-year period. MDPI 2018-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6213244/ /pubmed/30332823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101518 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lassen, Anne D. Knuthsen, Pia Bysted, Anette Andersen, Elisabeth W. The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title | The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title_full | The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title_fullStr | The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title_full_unstemmed | The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title_short | The Nutritional Quality of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites |
title_sort | nutritional quality of lunch meals eaten at danish worksites |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30332823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101518 |
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