Costing recommended (healthy) and current (unhealthy) diets in urban and inner regional areas of Australia using remote price collection methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the cost and affordability of two fortnightly diets (representing the national guidelines and current consumption) across areas containing Australia's major supermarkets.

Design

The Healthy Diets Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing protocol was used.

Setting

Price data were collected online and via phone calls in fifty-one urban and inner regional locations across Australia.

Participants

Not applicable.

Results

Healthy diets were consistently less expensive than current (unhealthy) diets. Nonetheless, healthy diets would cost 25-26 % of the disposable income for low-income households and 30-31 % of the poverty line. Differences in gross incomes (the most available income metric which overrepresents disposable income) dr

SUBMITTER: Zorbas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991756 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature