title: Food buying habits of people who buy wine or beer: cross sectional study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether people who buy wine buy healthier food items than those who buy beer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Supermarkets in Denmark. Data Information on number, type of item, and total charge from 3.5 million transactions over a period of six months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Wine buyers bought more olives, fruit and vegetables, poultry, cooking oil, and low fat cheese, milk, and meat than beer buyers. Beer buyers bought more ready cooked dishes, sugar, cold cuts, chips, pork, butter or margarine, sausages, lamb, and soft drinks than wine buyers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Wine buyers made more purchases of healthy food items than people who buy beer.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5 A, DK-1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
authors.forename: Ditte
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Friis
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skovenborg
authors.forename: Morten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grønbaek
mesh_terms: D001515:Beer / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003132:Commerce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003718:Denmark; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014920:Wine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*