Table 10:  Food intake   at least daily by gender

At least Daily intake of   

Males

Females

Total

More healthy

%

%

%

Bread

84.6

77.7

80.3*

Fruit

35.6

45.6

41.6*

Salad

21.8

32.7

28.6* 

Cooked vegetables

48.1

51.9

50.4

Pint of milk

50.1

24.1

33.9*

Meat

71.0

46.2

55.6*

Fish

4.6

3.5

3.9*

Low fat spread

19.7

27.8

24.8*

Vegetable oil

16.2

12.6

13.9

Less healthy

Cakes/biscuits

21.5

14.3

17.0*

Sweets

40.3

37.7

38.7

Crisps

17.3

13.0

14.6*

Fast food

9.9

3.8

6.1*

Fizzy drinks

36.4

20.6

26.6*

Butter/hard marg

50.0

36.3

41.5*

Usually add salt to table food

40.0

34.6

36.7*

*Significant between gender (p<.01)

A higher proportion of first year students had sweets (43%), fizzy drinks

(31%), crisps (18%) and fast foods (8%) at least daily, while a greater number

of third year students had salads and cooked vegetables (Figure 6). Fizzy

drinks (40%) and crisps (26%) were more popular among first year male

students than any other group. 

Figure 6: Food intake at least daily across year in college

32

Salad

28

25

54

Cooked veg

51

46

50

Meat

60

88

4

Fast Food

9

8

12

Crisps

15

18

21

Fizzy drinks

29

31

35

Sweets

39

29

43

0 20

40

60

80

70 

(%)

1st yr 

2nd yr 

3rd yr plus