Relationship between household food insecurity and food and nutrition literacy among children of 9–12 years of age: a cross-sectional study in a city of Iran

Table 2 Comparison of mean scores of total FNLIT and its subscales based on the HFI status

Variable	HFI status		p-value^a
Variable	Food-secure (n = 137)	Food-insecure (n = 178)	p-value^a
Total FNLIT (score)	74.09 ± 11.57^b	68.65 ± 12.83	< 0.001*
FNLIT cognitive domain (score)
Understanding food and nutrition information	76.95 ± 12.39	73.25 ± 13.91	0.01*
Nutritional health knowledge	88.5 ± 13.49	82.12 ± 20.74	0.001*
FNLIT skill domain (score)
Functional FNLIT	72.03 ± 13.9	69.41 ± 16.13	0.12
Interactive FNLIT	57.05 ± 26.9	57.11 ± 24.86	0.98
Food choice literacy	75.86 ± 69.94	69.94 ± 21.97	0.009*
Critical FNLIT	67.88 ± 22.16	65.87 ± 23.75	0.43
Food label literacy	72.08 ± 29.7	49.01 ± 35.19	< 0.001*

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