Snacking quality is associated with cardiometabolic health
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Participants consumed on average 74% of their snacking calories and 18% of their total daily calories from unhealthful foods. An inverse association was found between snacking frequency and quality (1 snack/d; 6.29 ± 1.67, 2 snack/day; 5.81 ± 2.11 and > 2 snacks/day; 5.23 ± 2.19, A sensitivity analysis was performed where only 2 free-living days were selected for all participants, and the associations between snacking quality (SDI) with the cardiometabolic blood and anthropometric measures were repeated. The relationships between snack quality and TG, insulin and HOMA-IR persisted (Supplementary Table 6).