From: Cross-cultural validity of a dietary questionnaire for studies of dental caries risk in Japanese
Food item | % distribution of frequency scores | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 (never) | 1 (rarely) | 2 (1/wk) | 3 (2-3/wk) | 4 (1/dy) | 5 (2-3/dy) | 6 (4+/dy) | |
Solid sugars | |||||||
Donuts, or muffinns | 52.7 | 40.3 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 |
Pudding or custard | 39.0 | 49.4 | 6.8 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Bread filled with bean | 63.3 | 30.8 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
jam or fruit jam | |||||||
Bar of sweet jellied | 90.7 | 7.9 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
adzuki-bean paste | |||||||
Solid and starchy sugars | |||||||
Rice cake | 74.9 | 20.8 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Bun with a bean-jam filling | 48.2 | 45.1 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Popcorn | 89.0 | 10.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rice cracker | 40.0 | 44.8 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0 |
Chocolate | 31.1 | 46.9 | 8.5 | 11.9 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 |
Liquid and semisolid sugars | |||||||
Cold drink | 27.7 | 41.5 | 5.9 | 15.0 | 7.6 | 1.7 | 0.6 |
Soda (not diet) | 43.2 | 39.5 | 5.4 | 8.5 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
Ice cream or sorbet | 15.5 | 48.2 | 13.8 | 18.3 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0 |
Sticky and slowly dissolving sugars | |||||||
Hard candy | 37.7 | 41.1 | 2.0 | 10.1 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 0.8 |
Gum (not sugar-free) | 64.8 | 23.1 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
Sugar or honey in coffee/tea | 49.4 | 19.9 | 4.3 | 10.5 | 13.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 |
Sticky candy (caramel) | 82.0 | 15.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 |
Other | |||||||
Cheese | 24.4 | 45.9 | 10.5 | 15.6 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
Plain yoghurt | 56.4 | 17.3 | 5.4 | 11.9 | 8.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Sugared yoghurt | 27.9 | 29.9 | 11.7 | 20.2 | 9.4 | 0.9 | 0 |
Bread | 4.3 | 15.1 | 8.2 | 30.4 | 36.9 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
Rice | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 4.4 | 17.7 | 69.3 | 4.1 |
Plain cereal | 95.2 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sugared cereal | 86.9 | 10.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 |
Lactic acid drink | 37.5 | 35.2 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 7.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Canned fruit | 68.5 | 23.9 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 |
Dried fruit | 76.6 | 14.1 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
Banana | 26.3 | 42.9 | 8.5 | 16.1 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
Milk | 11.6 | 11.9 | 3.4 | 22.0 | 36.2 | 13.0 | 2.0 |
Fruit juice | 51.0 | 28.6 | 5.4 | 8.2 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.6 |
Cocoa | 64.9 | 19.8 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0 |
Sugar added to cereal | 98.9 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jam, jelly or syrup | 57.6 | 22.3 | 4.2 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Jello (not sugar-free) | 60.6 | 30.0 | 3.0 | 5.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0 |
Cookies | 43.6 | 43.9 | 6.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 |
Cakes or pies | 27.6 | 65.4 | 5.4 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chips | 38.0 | 50.1 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Breath mints | 82.3 | 12.4 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0 |
Cough drops | 94.9 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.3 |