Intake of cooking oil and salt among day students and boarders aged 12 − 17 years in China, 2016 − 2017: a comparative analysis on data of China National Nutrition and Health Survey

Abstract

ObjectiveTo examine the intake of cooking oil and salt among day students and boarders aged 12 − 17 years in China in 2016 – 2017 for providing evidence to the development of effective measures on reducing cooking oil and salt intake in the students. MethodsThe data on 3 492 day students and 3 773 boarders aged 12 − 17 years were extracted from China National Nutrition and Health Survey conducted during 2016 – 2017 at 275 surveillance sites selected with multistage stratified random sampling in 31 provincial-level administrative divisions. Three-day consecutive weighing of household or school canteen cooking oil and salt use were adopted to measure the participants′ cooking oil and salt intake. ResultsThe median of cooking oil intake was 31.1 grams/day (g/d) for the day students and 30.6 g/d for the boarders and there was no significant difference between the medians of the two student groups (P > 0.05); but there were significant gender and residential region (urban-rural, north-south, east-middle-west) differences in the median of cooking oil intake for both day students and boarders (P 0.05). The median of table salt intake of the day students and boarders were 6.5 g/d and 6.6 g/d and there was no significant difference between the medians of the two student groups (P > 0.05); but there were significant gender and residential region (north-south, east-middle-west) differences in the median of table salt intake for both day students and boarders（all P 0.05). ConclusionThere were no significant differences in the medians of daily intake of cooking oil and table salt between the day students and boarders aged 12 – 17 years in China and more than 50% of the day students and boarders had the cooking oil and table salt intake exceeding the amount recommended in national dietary guidelines.

Keywords

• nutrition and health surveillance
• cooking oil
• cooking salt
• schoolchildren