Food buying habits of people who buy wine or beer: cross sectional study.
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.
Johansen
Ditte
D
National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5 A, DK-1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Friis
Karina
K
Skovenborg
Erik
E
Grønbaek
Morten
M
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*