Ready-meal consumption in older people: association with obesity and dietary intake

Objective To investigate ready-meal consumption trends in older French people, its association with overall diet quality and obesity. Design Cross-sectional analysis Setting Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial (MAPT), France Subjects 421 MAPT participants (mean age 76.8 years) who filled a food frequency questionnaire. Results The frequency of ready-meal consumption was low, with nearly 90% of participants declaring consuming ≤ 1 ready-meal per week. Compared to non- and low-consumers (≤ 1 ready-meal/week), regular consumers (≥ 2 ready-meals/week) were older ( p