Fig. 1

Trajectories of mean Total Difficulties Score (TDS) by fruit and vegetable consumption, gender and ethnicity from the age of 12 to 16 years. TDS means were predicted from linear-mixed models with random intercept, with adjustments for fruit and vegetable consumption, age, gender, ethnicity, physical activity, current smoking, current alcohol consumption, diet-related anxiety, paternal smoking, maternal smoking, paternal overweight, maternal overweight, parental care, parental control and family affluence. Means were restricted to 12–16 years of age, where estimations were robust