Studies on the food patterns of infants have little data as compared with the data of babies and school children, so, as the first step of the studies on the food patterns of infants, we investigated the contents of lunch of kindergarten children on 4 and 5 years of age.
The following is our results of investigation.
1) As for life environment of 4 years old children and 5 years old, there is no significant difference between the former and the latter on school career of their parents, income and age of their mother, but as a degree of care for children, the former mother is stronger than latter.
2) About quality of the lunch, 4 years old children have lower cereal-caloric ratio than the 5 years' infants. As a speciality of “Bento”, animal protein calorie ratio is high in both age groups.
3) Though quantity is little, lunch price of 4 years old infants is higher.
Generally, the contents of lunch of 4 years old children, in nutritive value and price, seem favorable and desirable.
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