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Convenience Foods and Dietary Quality in Children

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Pre-prepared food products, i.e. convenience foods (CF), are an important aspect of modern dietary habits. Consumer researchers reported an increasing trend towards the use of convenience food (CF) products during the last decades. Several studies showed their widespread use in children [1] and adults [2, 3]. In the UK, total sales of ready meals were valued at £1.78 billion in 2001, up 46 % on 1997. Those meals include: chilled (53 % of the value of retail sales); frozen (40 %); and room temperature (7 %)—including instant hot snacks [4].

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Abbreviations

CF:

Convenience food

DONALD Study:

Dortmund Nutritional Anth­ropometric Longitudinally Designed Study

ED:

Energy density

HM:

High meat

LM:

Low meat

NQI:

Nutrient Quality Index

VMP-Meal:

Vegetable-meat-potato meal

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  1. Research Institute of Child Nutrition Dortmund, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, Heinstueck 11, 44225, Dortmund, Germany

    Ute Alexy

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  1. Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, School of Medicine, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

  2. Rosemead Surgery, 8A Ray Park Avenue, Maidenhead, SL6 8DS, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    Lan-Anh Hunter

  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, United Kingdom

    Vinood B. Patel

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Alexy, U. (2013). Convenience Foods and Dietary Quality in Children. In: Preedy, V., Hunter, LA., Patel, V. (eds) Diet Quality. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7339-8_15

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