Maternal dietary intake and physical activity habits during the postpartum period: associations with clinician advice in a sample of Australian first time mothers

Table 2 Maternal postpartum dietary patterns

	n	(%)
Daily fruit intake (n=442)
Zero or less than one serve	75	17.0
1 serve	123	27.8
2 serves	164	37.1
3 serves	66	14.9
4-6 serves	14	3.2
Fruit intake meeting recommendations^b
Yes	245	55.4
No	197	44.6
Daily vegetable intake (n=442)
1 serve or less	79	17.8
2 serves	120	27.1
3 serves	147	33.3
4 serves	58	13.1
5 serves	26	5.9
6-7 serves	12	2.7
Vegetable intake meeting recommendations^b
Yes	38	8.6
No	404	91.4
Combined fruit and vegetable intake meeting recommendations
Yes	32	7.2
No	410	92.8
Daily soft drink intake (n=442)
None	146	33.0
Less than one glass	236	53.4
1 glass or more	60	13.7
	Mean ± SD	Range
Non core snack food intake score total (DEF)^a (n=442)	1.39±1.18	0.02-10.85
Chocolate or confectionary containing chocolate	0.42±0.47	0.00-3.00
Confectionary	0.21±0.33	0.00-3.00
Ice cream	0.18±0.23	0.00-2.00
Cakes or sweet pastries	0.19±0.21	0.00-2.00
Sweet biscuits	0.28±0.36	0.00-3.00
Corn chips, potato crisps	0.10±0.13	0.00-1.00

^aDaily Equivalent Frequency
^bFruit recommendations based on 2 serves / day and vegetable recommendations based on 5 serves / day

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