Food Choices of Young African-American and Latino Adolescents: Where Do Parents Fit In?

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Hispanic Americans 90%
• African Americans 88%
• Parents 70%
• Meals 67%
• Food 66%
• Fast Foods 50%
• Eating 42%
• Child 41%
• Focus Groups 36%
• Single Parent 29%
• Food Preferences 25%
• Lunch 23%
• Negotiating 22%
• Poverty 20%
• Appetite 19%
• Social Class 17%
• Decision Making 15%
• Mothers 12%

Agriculture & Biology

• food choices 100%
• traditional foods 69%
• food purchasing 56%
• dinner 53%
• focus groups 47%
• meals (menu) 43%
• immigration 40%
• ingestion 30%
• single parents 29%
• healthy eating habits 27%
• fast foods 27%
• lunch 26%
• socioeconomic status 23%
• appetite 21%
• socioeconomics 19%
• decision making 18%
• income 16%