Written Nutrition Guidelines, Client Choice Distribution, and Adequate Refrigerator Storage Are Positively Associated with Increased Offerings of Feeding America's Detailed Foods to Encourage (F2E) in a Large Sample of Arkansas Food Pantries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Millions of food-insecure households in the United States obtain food from food pantries each year. These foods are often of insufficient nutritional quality.

Objective

Our aim was to describe the frequency with which Arkansas food pantries offer foods included in Feeding America's Detailed Foods to Encourage (F2E) framework, and examine food pantry characteristics associated with increased frequency of offering F2E and other foods.

Design

This was a 27-item cross-sectional online survey that assessed food pantries' characteristics (eg, storage capacities, number of clients served) and typical food offerings.

Participants/setting

Partnering with five of Arkansas's six food banks, 764 e-mail invitations were sent to food agency managers across the sta

SUBMITTER: Long CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165034 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature