Nutritional quality of food purchases during the COVID-19 public health crisis: An analysis of geographic disparities in North Carolina.

ABSTRACT: To examine geographic disparities in the nutritional quality of food purchases during the COVID-19 public health crisis in North Carolina (NC). Using shopper-level longitudinal transaction records between October 2019- and December 2020 from NC's largest grocery retailer, we fit mixed-effect models to examine disparities in the nutritional quality of food purchases among shoppers in counties with different levels of socioeconomic development and how such disparities changed after March 2020, accounting for other observed and contextual factors. Shoppers in counties with lower development levels purchased a larger share of calories from least healthy foods and a smaller share from healthier foods compared to shoppers in counties with higher development levels. These disparities were slightl

SUBMITTER: D'Angelo Campos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11292539 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature