Associations between online food outlet access and online food delivery service use amongst adults in the UK: a cross-sectional analysis of linked data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Online food delivery services facilitate 'online' access to food outlets that typically sell lenergy-dense nutrient-poor food. Greater online food outlet access might be related to the use of this purchasing format and living with excess bodyweight, however, this is not known. We aimed to investigate the association between aspects of online food outlet access and online food delivery service use, and differences according to customer sociodemographic characteristics, as well as the association between the number of food outlets accessible online and bodyweight.

Methods

In 2019, we used an automated data collection method to collect data on all food outlets in the UK registered with the leading online food delivery service Just Eat (n = 33,204). We linked this wit

SUBMITTER: Keeble M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8557109 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature