Applying the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in a Sample of Choice-Based Minnesota Food Pantries to Test Associations Between Food Pantry Inventory, Client Food Selection, and Client Diet.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food pantry clients are at a high risk for diet-related chronic disease and suboptimal diet. Relatively little research has examined diet quality measures in choice-based food pantries where clients can choose their own food.

Objective

This study tested whether the diet quality scores for food at the pantry were associated with client food selection scores, and whether client food selection scores at the pantry were associated with client diet intake scores.

Design

This cross-sectional regression analysis, part of a larger evaluation study (SuperShelf), used baseline data from client and food pantry surveys, food pantry inventories, assessments of client food selections ("client carts"), and single 24-hour client dietary recalls.

Participants/setting

SUBMITTER: Caspi CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8530893 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature