Hispanic Thrifty Food Plan (H-TFP): Healthy, Affordable, and Culturally Relevant.

ABSTRACT: The USDA Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) is a federal estimate of a healthy diet at lowest cost for US population groups defined by gender and age. The present goal was to develop a version of the TFP that was more tailored to the observed dietary patterns of self-identified Hispanic participants in NHANES 2013-16. Analyses used the same national food prices and nutrient composition data as the TFP 2021. Diet quality was measured using the Healthy Eating Index 2015. The new Hispanic TFP (H-TFP) was cost-neutral with respect to TFP 2021 and fixed at $186/week for a family of four. Two H-TFP models were created using a quadratic programming (QP) algorithm. Fresh pork was modeled separately from other red meats. Hispanic NHANES participants were younger, had lower education and incomes, but had simil

SUBMITTER: Poinsot R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11397355 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature