Table 4

Food consumptions during lunchtime by measurement point in time

Food courseIntervention day 1
(N = 171)
Intervention day 2
(N = 171)
Follow-up
(N = 171)
K–W test
p-valuea
MeanSDMedianMeanSDMedianMeanSDMedian
First course2.270.76122.390.73032.210.77720.082
Second course2.040.77422.270.78521.920.7732< 0.001***
Vegetables1.680.72221.650.76511.610.72910.677
Fruit1.790.73221.750.67721.750.75420.842

Notes: Amounts of food were coded as ordinal variables: 1 = do not finish the dish at the first round; 2 = finish the dish at the first round; 3 = take the second round of the dish, no matter they finish it or not. Consumption of vegetables was from the consumption of side dishes. a Comparison of medians among treatments using Kruskal–Wallis rank sum tests.*, ** and *** denote significant difference at the 0.10, 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively

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