3. Results
FOP, cheese crackers
The criteria for assigning stars to products were delineated by the Institute of Medicine [Tests of equivalence of conditions (based on ANOVA and chi-square analyses) indicated that random assignment was successful in generating similar groups by study condition. There were no differences between conditions in child age, BMI, race/ethnicity, or language spoken (Of the 90 available products, 87 were purchased by at least one participant pair. Pairs purchased an average of eight items with their USD 20 (range of 5–12 items). The most purchased products were cheese crackers (purchased by 51 pairs), shell-shaped pasta (50 pairs), and canned black beans (49 pairs). The study hypotheses received partial support. The first hypothesis that the FOP labels alone would not produce significantly different food choices compared with the no-label Control group was supported by the ANOVA results (see However, the second hypothesis, that the FOP + Video group would choose products that had, on average, more stars on their FOP labels relative to the FOP Only group and the no-label Control group was not entirely supported (see 