The Diets of Young Children

Abstract

The survey recorded here was made because information was required on the amount of ascorbic acid supplied by the normal diet of young children. The survey could have been confined to the foods containing ascorbic acid, but to avoid directing the housewife's attention especially to those foods it was thought better to collect information on the whole diet. The only published values then available for the diets of young children were those presented by Widdowson (1947) which were, however, collected before the war from a relatively small number of subjects belonging mainly to middle-class families. Our survey gave the opportunity of getting more up-to-date information for a more widespread sample of children.