The Salt Content of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Worksite Canteens and Participants
3.2. Canteen Lunch Salt Intake
3.3. Comparison of Canteen Lunch Meal Salt Intake with a Study Conducted 10 Years Before
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Worksite Canteens (n = 15) |
---|---|
Situated in urban settings (%) | 53 |
Canteen outsourced (%) | 33 |
Number of daily canteen lunch meals (Mean(range)) | 138 (40–400) |
Occupation of the customers: | |
Mainly sedentary job functions (>50%) (%) | 67 |
Mainly male employees (>50%) (%) | 60 |
Characteristics | Participants (n = 240) (%) |
---|---|
Sex | |
Women | 41 |
Men | 59 |
Age group (year) | |
<30 | 16 |
30–39 | 26 |
40–49 | 33 |
>50 | 25 |
BMI | |
<18 | 1 |
19–25 | 60 |
26–30 | 31 |
>30 | 8 |
Occupation | |
Skilled | 20 |
Unskilled | 5 |
Office worker | 68 |
Trainee and other | 6 |
Salt Intake | All (n = 240) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Unadjusted Mean | SD | Estimated Mean (95% CI) | |
g/meal | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.6 (2.2,3.0) |
g/100 g | 0.77 | 0.3 | 0.78 (0.69,0.88) |
g/10 MJ | 13.2 | 4.6 | 12.0 (10.6,13.6) |
Salt Intake | Female (n = 99) | Male (n = 141) | Male-female | |||||
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Un-adjusted Mean | SD | Estimated (95% Cl) Mean | Un-adjusted Mean | SD | Estimated (95% Cl) Mean | Estimated Median Difference (95% Cl) | p-Value 1 | |
g/meal | 2.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 (1.7,2.7) | 3.2 | 1.5 | 2.9 (2.3,3.5) | 0.8 (0.4,1.1) | <0.001 |
g/100 g | 0.71 | 0.28 | 0.70 (0.59,0.83) | 0.81 | 0.29 | 0.80 (0.68,0.93) | 0.10 (0.02,0.17) | 0.011 |
g/10 MJ | 13.1 | 4.9 | 11.9 (10.0,13.8) | 13.4 | 4.4 | 12.4 (10.6,14.4) | 0.6 (-0.6,1.8) | 0.325 |
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Lassen, A.D.; Trolle, E.; Bysted, A.; Knuthsen, P.; Andersen, E.W. The Salt Content of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites. Nutrients 2018, 10, 1367. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/nu10101367
Lassen AD, Trolle E, Bysted A, Knuthsen P, Andersen EW. The Salt Content of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites. Nutrients. 2018; 10(10):1367. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/nu10101367
Chicago/Turabian StyleLassen, Anne D., Ellen Trolle, Anette Bysted, Pia Knuthsen, and Elisabeth W. Andersen. 2018. "The Salt Content of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites" Nutrients 10, no. 10: 1367. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/nu10101367