Refining and implementing the Food Assortment Scoring Tool (FAST) in food pantries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hunger relief agencies have a limited capacity to monitor the nutritional quality of their food. Validated measures of food environments, such as the Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI-2010), are challenging to use due to their time intensity and requirement for precise nutrient information. A previous study used out-of-sample predictions to demonstrate that an alternative measure correlated well with the HEI-2010. The present study revised the Food Assortment Scoring Tool (FAST) to facilitate implementation and tested the tool's performance in a real-world food pantry setting.

Design

We developed a FAST measure with thirteen scored categories and thirty-one sub-categories. FAST scores were generated by sorting and weighing foods in categories, multiplying each categor

SUBMITTER: Caspi CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6729128 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature