Ventura-Comes, AnnaMartínez-Sanz, José MiguelSánchez Oliver, Antonio JesúsDomínguez Herrera, Raúl2025-04-212025-04-212019Ventura-Comes, A., Martínez-Sanz, J.M., Sánchez Oliver, A.J. y Domínguez Herrera, R. (2019). Analysis of foods habits in squash players. Journal Of Physical Education And Sport, 19, 1300-1307. https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2019.s4189.2247-806X (electrónico)2247-8051 (impreso)https://hdl.handle.net/11441/171864Background: Squash is one of the four most popular racquet sports, practiced by 20 million people worldwide. It is a sport that has been scarcely researched in the area of nutrition, and even less so regarding the dietary habits of its players. The objective of this work is to perform a descriptive and comparative analysis of dietary habits insquash players at the national and international levels. Methodology: A total of 14 international and 28 national players answered a validated food consumption frequency questionnaire. We used a Student´s ttest for independent samples and a χ2 test in the comparative analysis of players of different levels. Results: The results show that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups of players in the consumption of bread (p = 0.016) and nuts (p = 0.008), with a tendency towards statistical significance for eggs (p = 0.064), blue fish (p = 0.057), and white meat (p = 0.069), which the international players consumed with a higher frequency. There were no significant differences in the consumption of fruits, vegetables, or pulses. The two groups had a similar consumption of potatoes, pasta, rice, juices and soft drinks, sweets and snacks, white fish, and red meat. Conclusions: Although it was not possible to estimate the intake and percentage of macronutrients, a possible deficit of carbohydrates and an excess of proteins can be deduced in both groups. In addition, these players do not usually seek advice from dieticians-nutritionists, so the involvement of these professionals in the coaching staff of squash players could improve athletic performance.application/pdf7 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Sport NutritionFood IntakeRacquet SportsSport Performanceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2019.s4189