Research Article
Development of a Masticatory Indicator Using a Checklist of Chewable Food Items for the Community-Dwelling Elderly
Table 1
The pass rate and nonresponse rate for 25 chewable food items.
| | Food item | Nonresponder
(%) | Subjects passed
(%) |
| | Banana | 0.9 | 97.3 | | Boiled cabbage | 0.5 | 90.9 | | Boiled carrots | 0.9 | 96.4 | | Boiled taro | 1.0 | 97.8 | | Boiled onion | 2.7 | 95.0 | | Strawberry | 2.3 | 97.7 | | Ham | 5.0 | 98.7 | | Boiled fish paste patty | 1.8 | 93.6 | | Boiled seaweed | 3.2 | 90.0 | | Konjac food | 0.5 | 92.3 | | Fried chicken | 2.3 | 80.0 | | Roast chicken | 10.0 | 75.4 | | Apple | 1.0 | 85.5 | | Pickled eggplant | 1.2 | 85.9 | | Raw cabbage | 1.2 | 86.9 | | Roast pork | 9.1 | 80.9 | | Pickled radish | 0.9 | 80.0 | | Cubic rice cracker | 4.1 | 78.6 | | Peanuts | 2.7 | 70.0 | | Sliced raw cuttlefish | 8.2 | 70.9 | | Raw carrots | 2.3 | 63.2 | | Vinegared octopus | 16.4 | 68.2 | | Dried cuttlefish | 8.2 | 49.5 | | Dried sweet potato | 4.5 | 59.5 | | Hard baked rice cracker | 3.2 | 62.7 |
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