Cost of a Healthy Diet: A Population-Representative Comparison of 3 Diet Cost Methods in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Different food price sources and dietary assessment tools may impact the estimation of diet costs and hamper our understanding of the relationship between diet costs and dietary intakes.

Objectives

We aimed to investigate the effect of 3 diet cost derivation methods, with increasing numbers of food prices and geographic specificity, holding consistent the dietary assessment tool, on the estimation of diet costs overall and by food group.

Methods

We matched 24-h dietary recall data from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition (CCHS-N) to food price data from 3 Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) food price lists; national short list, national long list, and provincial long list. We compared the daily ($/day) and energy-adjusted ($/2000 kcal) diet

SUBMITTER: Luongo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11600118 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature