Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing using large-scale commercial purchasing data: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence for an association between the local food environment, diet and diet-related disease is mixed, particularly in the UK. One reason may be the use of more distal outcomes such as weight status and cardiovascular disease, rather than more proximal outcomes such as food purchasing. This study explores associations between food environment exposures and food and drink purchasing for at-home and out-of-home (OOH) consumption.

Methods

We used item-level food and drink purchase data for London and the North of England, UK, drawn from the 2019 Kantar Fast Moving Consumer Goods panel to assess associations between food environment exposures and household-level take-home grocery (n=2,118) and individual-level out-of-home (n=447) food and drink purchasing. Density, p

SUBMITTER: Kalbus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831883 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature