Ethnic disparities of beverage consumption in infants and children 0–5 years of age; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011 to 2014

Table 5 Amount of Total Milk, 100% Juice, and Sugar Sweetened Beverages consumed on a given day by age and race/ethnicity, NHANES 2011–2014

	0–23 Months	2–3 Years	4–5 Years
	Mean ± SEM	Mean ± SEM	Mean ± SEM
Milk¹ (cups eq.)
Non-Hispanic White (n = 591)	1.31^a ± 0.12	1.50^ab ± 0.10	1.30^ab ± 0.18
Non-Hispanic Black (n = 643)	0.83^b ± 0.08	1.14^a ± 0.12	0.83^a ± 0.10
Hispanic (n = 833)	1.21^a ± 0.09	1.65^b ± 0.10	1.33^b ± 0.09
Asian (n = 222)	1.06^ab ± 0.24	1.61^ab ± 0.34	1.43^b ± 0.14
100% Juice² (cups eq.)
Non-Hispanic White	0.35 ± 0.06	0.57 ± 0.08	0.47^b ± 0.05
Non-Hispanic Black	0.44 ± 0.07	0.80 ± 0.11	0.44^ab ± 0.06
Hispanic	0.41 ± 0.04	0.51 ± 0.06	0.47^b ± 0.06
Asian	0.31 ± 0.07	0.62 ± 0.09	0.21^a ± 0.07
Sugar Sweetened Beverages³ (oz)
Non-Hispanic White	1.37^ab ± 0.38	3.76^ab ± 0.57	5.74^b ± 0.92
Non-Hispanic Black	3.54^b ± 0.82	5.63^b ± 0.70	9.12^b ± 1.01
Hispanic	2.28^ab ± 0.53	5.21^ab ± 0.76	6.79^b ± 0.95
Asian	0.63^a ± 0.42	2.82^a ± 0.75	2.19^a ± 0.65

Data based on Day 1 dietary recalls
SEM Standard Error of the Mean. 1) Milk includes: milk, flavored milk, milk shakes, dairy drinks, milk substitutes. 2) 100% Juice includes: citrus, apple, other fruit, vegetable, baby juice. 3) Sugar Sweetened Beverages includes: soft drinks, fruit drinks, sport drinks, energy drinks, nutritional beverages. ^a,b Means sharing the same superscripts are not significantly different by race/ethnicity within age groups, p < 0.01

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