Family meals and diet quality among children and adolescents in North Carolina.

Objective: To examine the relationship between diet quality and frequency of family meals throughout childhood and adolescence.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of children ages birth through 17 years (n = 1,992) using data from the 2010 North Carolina Child Health and Monitoring Program. Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the associations between family meals and fruit intake, vegetable intake, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake among younger children, older children, and adolescents.