The cost of healthy versus current diets in the Netherlands for households with a low, middle and high education.

ABSTRACT: The cost of food is an important driver of food choice and most evidence suggests that healthier diets are more costly than less healthy diets. However, current attempts to model the cost of healthy and current diets do not take into account the variation in diets or food prices. We calculated the differential cost between healthy and current diets for households with a low, medium and high education in the Netherlands using the DIETCOST program. The DIETCOST program accounts for variations in dietary patterns and allows for the calculation of the distribution of the cost of bi-weekly healthy and current household diets. Data from the Dutch National Food Consumption Survey 2012-2016 was used to construct commonly consumed food lists for the population as a whole and for households with a l

SUBMITTER: Hoenink JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9712664 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature