Foods advertised in US weekly supermarket sales circulars over one year: a content analysis

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Differences in the proportions of food groups advertised in weekly supermarket sales circulars by season ¹

	Season
	Winter		Spring		Summer		Fall
	n = 2 006		n = 2 622		n = 2 154		n = 2 427
MyPlate major food groups and subgroups	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Grains	388	19.3^ac	427	16.3^b	360	16.7^ab	481	19.8^c	< 0.001
Without added sugar	224	11.2^ac	233	8.9^b	205	9.5^ab	298	12.2^c	<0.001
With added sugar	164	8.2	194	7.4	155	7.2	183	7.5	0.67
Vegetables	156	7.8	227	8.7	171	7.9	214	8.8	0.50
Other vegetables	65	3.2	114	4.4	85	4.0	85	3.5	0.20
Red & orange	40	2.0	47	1.8	48	2.2	63	2.6	0.25
Potatoes	34	1.7	40	1.5	29	1.4	54	2.2	0.12
Dark green	17	0.9	26	1.0	9	0.4	12	0.5	0.05
Fruits	144	7.2	177	6.8	150	7.0	160	6.6	0.88
Fruit	94	4.7	126	4.8	115	5.3	107	4.4	0.53
100% fruit juice	50	2.5	51	2.0	35	1.6	53	2.2	0.23
Oils	9	0.5	13	0.5	7	0.3	21	0.9	0.08
Dairy	218	10.9	257	9.8	242	11.2	245	10.1	0.35
Cheese	125	6.2	143	5.5	134	6.2	125	5.2	0.29
Milk-based desserts	44	2.2	76	2.9	72	3.3	62	2.6	0.13
Fluid milk	31	1.6	21	0.8	16	0.7	34	1.4	0.02
Yogurt	18	0.9	17	0.7	20	0.9	24	1.0	0.55
Protein Foods	525	26.2	657	25.1	557	25.9	560	23.1	0.66
Meat & poultry	391	19.5^ab	513	19.6^ab	457	21.2^a	433	17.8^b	0.04
Seafood	97	4.8	85	3.2^a	50	2.3^a	70	2.9^a	< 0.001
Nuts and seeds	20	1.0	30	1.1	23	1.1	36	1.5	0.45
Beans & peas	10	0.5	18	0.7	16	0.7	13	0.5	0.69
Eggs	7	0.4	11	0.4	11	0.5	8	0.3	0.78
Water	21	1.0	30	1.1	20	0.9	23	1.0	0.87
Empty calories	300	15.0	408	15.6	376	17.5	388	16.0	0.15
Added sugars	182	9.1	253	9.7	242	11.2	252	10.4	0.10
Solid fats	118	5.9	155	5.9	134	6.2	136	5.6	0.85
Other²	245	12.2^a	426	16.3^b	271	12.6^a	335	13.8^ab	< 0.001

¹Values with the same superscript letters are not significantly different from each other.
²Includes combination foods; not enough detail available to separate out into groups.

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