Relationships between food consumption and living arrangements among university students in four European countries - A cross-sectional study

Table 3 Consumption of food items by country and sex

	Germany		Denmark		Poland		Bulgaria		p-value**
Food Item	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Country	Sex	Country x sex
	N = 394	N = 302	N = 262	N = 278	N = 351	N = 138	N = 449	N = 205
Sweets*	38.2	26.3	21.5	9.3	30.6	22.2	56.5	45.7	<0.001	<0.001	n.a.
Cakes^†	28.5	26.9	19.2	18.6	63.3	54.8	73.1	70.4	<0.001	0.11	n.a.
Snacks^†	23.0	34.7	12.7	16.5	22.5	32.7	60.8	61.5	<0.001	<0.001	n.a.
Fast food^†	25.1	44.5	11.2	27.6	7.5	18.8	72.4	87.7	<0.001	<0.001	n.a.
Fruits*	47.8	32.1	55.4	28.6	39.5	23.8	54.1	39.4	<0.001	<0.001	n.a.
Salads*	37.5	25.4	46.4	23.3	28.0	23.9	61.8	51.6	<0.001	<0.001	0.018
Vegetables*	26.8	24.3	22.6	16.1	15.2	14.4	31.1	32.7	<0.001	0.25	n.a.
Meat*	32.0	60.9	46.1	59.1	41.3	58.5	37.8	67.4	<0.001	<0.001	n.a.
Fish ^†	21.8	32.9	36.5	33.3	27.0	34.8	31.9	50.7	0.21	0.002	0.005

* Percentage reporting high consumption (several times a day/daily).
^† Percentage reporting consumption at least several times per week (several times a day/daily/several times per week).
** p-values from logistic regression including main effects for country and sex and the interaction between them both.
n.a. – when interaction term was not significant it was removed and significance of main effects was studied.

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