The more that households prioritise healthy eating, the better they can afford to consume a sufficient quantity and variety of fruits and vegetables

Stewart, Hayden; Hyman, Jeffrey; Dong, Diansheng; Carlson, Andrea

doi:10.1017/s1368980020004929

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“…Nevertheless, we must admit that Hypothesis 2 is confirmed only for higher-value meat and dairy products, fruits, and vegetables, while for cereals, roots, and pulses, the relationship between X 4–7 and Y n is weaker. This agrees with Stewart et al [ 134 ] and Mackenbach [ 27 ], who recently linked the consumption of fruits and vegetables with the way households prioritize healthy eating. According to the FAO [ 3 ], the availability of fruits and vegetables in low-income and lower-middle-income has substantially increased since the 1990s, but it remains far below the 400 g/capita/day consumption target established by the WHO [ 135 , 136 ].…”

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Erokhin

Tianming

et al. 2021

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Over the past decades, both the quantity and quality of food supply for millions of people have improved substantially in the course of economic growth across the developing world. However, the number of undernourished people has resumed growth in the 2010s amid food supply disruptions, economic slowdowns, and protectionist restrictions to agricultural trade. Having been common to most nations, these challenges to the food security status of the population still vary depending on the level of economic development and national income of individual countries. In order to explore the long-run determinants of food supply transformations, this study employs five-stage multiple regression analysis to identify the strengths and directions of effects of agricultural production parameters, income level, price indices, food trade, and currency exchange on supply of calories, proteins, and fats across 11 groups of agricultural products in 1980–2018. To address the diversity of effects across developing nations, the study includes 99 countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa categorized as low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income economies. It is found that in low-income countries, food supply parameters are more strongly affected by production factors compared to economic and trade variables. The effect of economic factors on the food supply of higher-value food products, such as meat and dairy products, fruit, and vegetables, increases with the rise in the level of income, but it stays marginal for staples in all three groups of countries. The influence of trade factors on food supply is stronger compared to production and economic parameters in import-dependent economies irrelevant of the gross national income per capita. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the research on how food supply patterns and their determinants evolve in the course of economic transformations in low-income countries.

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

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Tianming

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“…Defining our second price interval this way makes it possible to include key, top-consumed products. Previous research shows that baskets created in this manner contain a sufficient variety of fruits and vegetables and are affordable at national average prices for about 40% of the historic TFP [ 23 ].…”

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“…Next, using simulation techniques reported in [ 23 ] and the Gauss statistical software package version 19, we selected the products to include in each of the 1000 food baskets. The computer code used to perform these simulations is available in the Supplementary Material .…”

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“…Households that desire to satisfy the Dietary Guidelines recommendations on a limited budget must also be willing to prioritize healthy foods like fruits and vegetables to a greater extent than U.S. households generally do. Research shows that a household receiving maximum SNAP benefits and facing national average prices can afford a sufficient quantity and variety of fruits and vegetables with 40% of those benefits [ 23 ]. This is consistent with the TFP which also assumes that households allocate about 40% of their food budgets to fruits and vegetables [ 7 , 8 ].…”

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“…In this study, we use simulation techniques similar to those in Stewart et al [ 23 ] and USDA data on fruit and vegetables prices to ask how well a representative household receiving maximum SNAP benefits can afford food baskets that contain a sufficient variety and quantity of fruit and vegetables. We construct 1000 food baskets that, when evaluated at national average prices, will cost about 40% of the historic TFP.…”

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U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Affordability on the Thrifty Food Plan Depends on Purchasing Power and Safety Net Supports

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Stewart

2022

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) increases the food purchasing power of lower-income households so that they can better afford a nutritious diet. Benefit amounts are based in part on the cost for a household to follow the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), a meal pattern designed to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In October 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reformulated the TFP and increased its cost by 21%. However, the TFP still does not account for differences in food prices across the country. This study examines: (1) how geographic variation in food prices affects fruit and vegetable affordability and (2) to what extent raising the cost of the TFP (and therefore the maximum SNAP benefit) has mitigated these effects. We use data on fruit and vegetable prices from the USDA and simulation techniques to create and cost out food baskets with a sufficient quantity and variety of fruits and vegetables for a representative household to satisfy guidelines over one week. We find that the increase in SNAP benefits will increase fruit and vegetable affordability for participating households. However, households facing food prices greater than national average food prices may still face tradeoffs to purchase a balanced diet.

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The impact of a healthy checkout intervention on fruit and vegetable ‘micro-pack’ purchases in New Mexico

Rogus

Guthrie

Niculescu

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Objective: Produce sold as plastic-wrapped packs of two to four individual items (i.e., produce micro-packs) that are low-cost and placed at checkout may appeal to shoppers with budget constraints and provide a second chance to purchase items available elsewhere in the store. This study examined the impact of an intervention that placed produce micro-packs at checkout and promoted them in grocery stores across New Mexico, United States of America (USA). Design: This quasi-experimental study placed produce micro-packs at checkout end-caps in 13 stores (group 1), with eight stores serving as controls (group 2) from July 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020 (first phase). The intervention was extended to group 2 stores from February 1, 2020 through June 30, 2020 (second phase). Cashiers were directed to upsell the micro-packs to Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children recipients who had unspent cash value benefits for produce purchases. Setting: Twenty-one grocery stores across New Mexico. Participants: Twenty-one produce items sold as micro-packs in stores from July 2019 through June 2020. Results: A random effects model showed that the daily sales of micro-packs increased by 47% during each intervention period. Group 2 stores had lower sales than group 1 stores during the first phase of the intervention. Once extended to group 2 stores, sales of micro-packs in those stores increased and sales in group 1 stores continued at the higher level. Conclusions: Placing produce micro-packs at checkout may increase produce sales and support health promotion efforts by public and private stakeholders.

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The more that households prioritise healthy eating, the better they can afford to consume a sufficient quantity and variety of fruits and vegetables

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Affordability on the Thrifty Food Plan Depends on Purchasing Power and Safety Net Supports

The impact of a healthy checkout intervention on fruit and vegetable ‘micro-pack’ purchases in New Mexico

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