Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program healthy eating incentives and fruit and vegetable spending across the month.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate how incentives that encourage healthy eating among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants impact intra-monthly variation in fruit and vegetable spending.

Design

We used transaction data from three Alabama grocery stores participating in a programme that offered dollar-matching coupons for fresh produce. For each store, we calculated daily spending on fresh produce out of SNAP benefits and daily incentive coupon redemptions. We compared total daily spending on fresh produce and daily coupon redemptions on days over which SNAP benefits are distributed in Alabama with spending and redemption on days at the end of the month with no SNAP distribution.

Setting

SNAP and incentive transactions in three Alabama grocery stores.

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SUBMITTER: Cuffey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11504429 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature