Table 2 Students’ consumption of breakfast item categories by location (N = 651)
From: Breakfast patterns among low-income, ethnically-diverse 4th-6thgrade children in an urban area
Category | Overall | Home | School | Corner store |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ate at any location | 87.6% | 75.6% | 32.9% | 27.5% |
Cereal | 32.5% | 37.8% | 13.1% | 4.5% |
Milk, yogurt, or cheese | 31.7% | 31.7% | 25.2% | 6.7% |
Water | 29.0% | 27.0% | 4.2% | 7.8% |
100% fruit juice (Juicy Juice) | 27.5% | 17.5% | 36.9% | 16.2% |
Bread (bagel, toast, or roll) | 21.0% | 18.1% | 22.4% | 2.8% |
Muffin, donut, pastry, cake, or pie | 18.9% | 8.9% | 28.0% | 12.8% |
Waffles, French toast, pancakes | 17.9% | 18.5% | 13.1% | 1.7% |
Breakfast sandwich | 17.6% | 16.1% | 5.1% | 15.6% |
Chips (Doritos, potato chips, Cheetos, etc.) | 17.5% | 6.3% | 7.0% | 44.7% |
Eggs | 15.3% | 18.5% | 1.9% | 5.0% |
Fruits (apple, pear, peaches, etc.) | 14.6% | 14.8% | 7.0% | 5.0% |
Meat (bacon, ham, sausage), chicken, or fish | 13.7% | 14.4% | 2.8% | 8.4% |
Soda, lemonade, Capri Sun, Sunny D, Hug, etc. | 12.6% | 10.0% | 1.4% | 17.9% |
Candy | 11.7% | 5.3% | 4.7% | 26.3% |
Coffee, tea, iced tea (Arizona, Brisk, etc.) | 10.7% | 9.4% | 2.3% | 11.2% |
Vegetables (lettuce, green beans, broccoli, etc.) | 5.7% | 6.1% | 4.2% | 0.6% |
Other | 4.3% | 2.6% | 2.3% | 1.1% |
Cracker | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2.3% | NA |
Pretzel | 0.2% | NA | NA | 0.6% |