From: Household income differences in food sources and food items purchased
 | Home Monthly Dollars Spent* by Income | Eating Out Dollars Spent* by Income | ||||||
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Food Category | Low | Med | High | P | Low | Med | High | P |
Foods | ||||||||
Fruits/vegetables (includes potatoes) | 10.27 | 16.65 | 21.56 | .001 | 1.39 | 1.75 | 3.17 | .003 |
Sweets/snacks | 8.38 | 15.77 | 17.36 | .001 | 1.13 | 2.10 | 2.45 | .061 |
Prepackaged entrée |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
   <500 cal | 0.92 | 1.35 | 0.92 | .481 | -- | --- | --- | --- |
   >500 cal | 2.88 | 3.20 | 2.08 | .375 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Eating out entrée | --- | --- | --- | --- | 15.59 | 19.61 | 33.1 | .003 |
Eating out side | --- | --- | --- | --- | 0.0 | 0.68 | 0.99 | .014 |
Beverages | ||||||||
Sugar beverages | 1.75 | 2.67 | 2.08 | .464 | 1.15 | 1.23 | 1.75 | .056 |
Non-caloric beverages | 0.0 | 0.87 | 3.12 | .001 | 0 | 0 | 0.82 | .001 |
Fruit/vegetable juice | 1.34 | 1.54 | 1.66 | .091 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .220 |
Sum of all home (or away) beverages | 4.12 | 6.56 | 9.31 | .014 | 3.33 | 5.48 | 10.49 | .002 |
Eating out alcoholic beverages (means) | --- | --- | --- | --- | 1.54 | 1.77 | 3.31 | .029 |
Eating out specialty drinks (means) | --- | --- | --- | --- | 1.41 | 2.93 | 3.61 | .012 |
% of home $ from sweets/snacks | 14 | 18 | 19 | .009 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
% of home $ from fruits/vegetables | 14 | 16 | 22 | .001 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
% home beverage $ from sugar beverage | 45 | 38 | 26 | .014 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Ratio of sweets/snacks $ to fruits/vegetables $ | 0.95 | 0.89 | 0.97 | .473 | --- | --- | --- | --- |