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Key opportunities identified for adolescents were to increase breakfast consumption, given the high nutrient densities of breakfasts consumed; improve overall lunch quality, particularly the sodium content; promote the intake of milk, fruit and a variety of vegetables at both lunch and dinner; maintain healthful choices at in-between meal eating occasions while focusing on decreasing the intake of discretionary foods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu9060608","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,14]],"date-time":"2017-06-14T10:49:53Z","timestamp":1497437393000},"page":"608","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Identifying Eating Occasion-Based Opportunities to Improve the Overall Diets of Australian Adolescents"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Flavia","family":"Fayet-Moore","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nutrition Research Australia, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"McConnell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nutrition Research Australia, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jean","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nestl\u00e9 Australia Ltd., Rhodes, NSW 2138, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kevin","family":"Mathias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nestl\u00e9 Research Center, 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.ejcn.1600978","article-title":"Growth and micronutrient needs of adolescents","volume":"54","author":"Olmedilla","year":"2000","journal-title":"Eur. 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