Eating occasion situational factors and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in young adults

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of daily SSB consumption in consumers of SSBs, overall and by sex^a

	Overall (n = 237)	Men (n = 59)	Women (n = 178)	P value^b
Daily consumption overall
Total SSBs consumed, grams/d	98 (124)	117 (150) 114 (292)	95 (119)	0.001
Number of times SSBs consumed, freq./d	0.3 (0.4)	0.3 (0.4) 0.5 (0.8)	0.5 (0.4)	0.31
Number of serves SSBs consumed, freq./d^c	0.3 (0.3)	0.3 (0.3)	0.2 (0.3)	0.001
Total energy intake from SSBs, kJ/d	157 (199)	198 (191)	144 (189)	0.001
Percentage of total energy intake from SSBs, %	2 (3)	3 (3)	2 (3)	0.008
Total energy intake from all beverages, kJ/d	664 (715)	782 (900)	656 (653)	0.09
Percentage of beverage energy intake from SSBs, %	27 (35)	39 (43)	24 (34)	0.01
Daily consumption by eating occasion
Eating occasions containing SSBs, freq./d	0.3 (0.3)	0.3 (0.3)	0.5 (0.3)	0.32
Eating occasions containing other beverages, freq./d	2.0 (1.5)	1.5 (1.5)	2.3 (1.5)	< 0.001
Beverage-only occasions, freq./d	0.8 (1.0)	0.5 (1.0)	0.8 (1.0)	0.05
Beverage-only occasions containing SSBs, freq./d	0 (0.3)	0 (0.3)	0 (0.3)	0.53

Abbreviations: d day, EI Energy intake, freq. frequency, SSB Sugar sweetened beverage
^aValues are median (interquartile range)
^bWilcoxon rank sum test of differences between men and women
^cOne serve = 600 kJ

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