Diet Quality of Community Café Meals Among Guests With Food Insecurity.
J Nutr Educ Behav
; 56(8): 579-587, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Compare the diet quality of a meal consumed at a community café (café meals), a pay-what-you-can restaurant, to a meal consumed for an equivalent eating occasion on the day before (comparison meal) by guests with food insecurity.METHODS:
Dietary recalls were collected from café guests with food insecurity to determine the Healthy Eating Index-2020 (HEI-2020) total and component scores. Healthy Eating Index-2020 scores were compared between meals using paired-sample t tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.RESULTS:
Most participants (n = 40; 80% male; 42.5% Black) had very low food security (70.0%). Café meal had a higher HEI-2020 total score (46.7 ± 10.5 vs 34.4 ± 11.6; P < 0.001) and total vegetables (2.6 ± 2.0 vs 1.2 ± 1.7; P = 0.004), total fruits (2.1 ± 2.2 vs 0.6 ± 1.5; P < 0.001), whole fruits (1.6 ± 2.0 vs 0.3 ± 0.9; P < 0.001), and refined grains (7.8 ± 3.5 vs 3.9 ± 3.9; P < 0.001) scores than comparison meals. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS The café meal had better diet quality than the comparison meal, suggesting its potential for improving diet quality among guests with food insecurity.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Inseguridad Alimentaria
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Nutr Educ Behav
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
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CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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EDUCACAO
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos