Annotated receipts capture household food purchases from a broad range of sources

French, Simone A.; Wall, Melanie M.; Mitchell, Nathan; Shimotsu, Scott T.; Welsh, Ericka M.

doi:10.1186/1479-5868-6-37

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“…Understanding household food purchasing behavior , i.e., the purchase of foods from a variety of sources, including but not limited to grocery stores, neighborhood and convenience stores, and restaurants (9, 10) , could illuminate the role of geographic access in actual dietary intake. Specifically, analysis of where residents purchase healthier (i.e., fruits and vegetables) and less healthy (i.e., high in sugar, salt, or calories) foods can provide a more complete understanding of whether and how the neighborhood food environment might best be modified to improve food purchasing behavior.…”

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“…This study has the notable strengths of a large consumer panel and detailed data on food purchases, but the data do not include food purchases from sources other than stores (e.g., restaurants) and underrepresent poor consumers. Other research has analyzed receipts data, but, to our knowledge, none have focused on residents of an urban food desert (10, 12) .…”

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Where do food desert residents buy most of their junk food? Supermarkets

Vaughan

Cohen

Ghosh-Dastidar

et al. 2016

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective To examine where residents in an area with limited access to healthy food (an urban food desert) purchased healthier and less healthy foods. Design Food shopping receipts were collected over a one-week period in 2013. These were analyzed to describe where residents shopped for food and what types of food they bought. Setting Two low-income, predominantly African-American neighborhoods with limited access to healthy food in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Subjects 293 households in which the primary food shoppers were predominantly female (77.8%) and non-Hispanic black (91.1%) adults. Results Full-service supermarkets were by far the most common food retail outlet from which food receipts were returned and accounted for a much larger proportion (57.4%) of food and beverage expenditures, both healthy and unhealthy, than other food retail outlets. Although patronized less frequently, convenience stores were notable purveyors of unhealthy food. Conclusions Findings highlight the need to implement policies that can help to decrease unhealthy food purchases in full-service supermarkets and convenience stores and increase healthy food purchases in convenience stores.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where do food desert residents buy most of their junk food? Supermarkets

Vaughan

Cohen

Ghosh-Dastidar

et al. 2016

Public Health Nutr.

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“…This method (collecting receipts) has previously been validated and found to be an effective measure of household food purchases (29) . The varied nature and many sources of the receipts did not allow for vegetable purchases to be measured in grams or servings.…”

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Buying health: assessing the impact of a consumer-side vegetable subsidy on purchasing, consumption and waste

Smith-Drelich

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To measure the impact of a reimbursement-based consumer subsidy on vegetable expenditures, consumption and waste. Design: Two-arm randomized controlled trial; two-week baseline observation period, three-week intervention period. Participants' vegetable expenditures, consumption and waste were monitored using receipts collection and through an FFQ. During the intervention period, the treatment group received reimbursement of up to 50 US dollars ($) for purchased vegetables. Setting: Participants were solicited from Palo Alto, CA, USA using materials advertising a 'consumer behavior study' and a small participation incentive. To prevent selection bias, solicitation materials did not describe the specific behaviour being evaluated. Subjects: One hundred and fifty potential participants responded to the solicitations and 144 participants enrolled in the study; 138 participants completed all five weekly surveys. Results: Accounting for the control group (n 69) and the two-week baseline period, the intervention significantly impacted the treatment group's (n 69) vegetable expenditures (+ $8·16 (SD 2·67)/week, P < 0·01), but not vegetable consumption ( +1·3 (SD 1·2) servings/week, P = 0·28) or waste (−0·23 (SD 1·2) servings/week, P = 0·60). Conclusions: The consumer subsidy significantly increased participants' vegetable expenditures, but not consumption or waste, suggesting that this type of subsidy might not have the effects anticipated. Reimbursement-based consumer subsidies may therefore not be as useful a policy tool for impacting vegetable consumption as earlier studies have suggested. Moreover, moderation analysis revealed that the subsidy's effect on participants' vegetable expenditures was significant only in men. Additional research should seek to determine how far reaching genderspecific effects are in this context. Further research should also examine the effect of a similar consumer subsidy on high-risk populations and explore to what extent increases in participants' expenditures are due to the purchase of more expensive vegetables, purchasing of vegetables during the study period that were consumed outside the study period, or a shift from restaurant vegetable consumption to grocery vegetable consumption.

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“…Using multiple observational measures could provide a more complete understanding of the home food environment, but may also be burdensome on participants. Objective longitudinal measures with low participant burden such as food receipt collection (French et al 2009) to account for all the food that enters the home should be explored as a potential measure of home food availability.…”

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Children's Food Store, Restaurant, and Home Food Environments and Their Relationship with Body Mass Index: A Pilot Study

Holsten

Compher

2012

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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This pilot research assessed the feasibility and utility of a study designed to examine the relationship between children's BMI and food store, restaurant, and home food environments. Home visits were conducted with sixth-grade children (N = 12). BMI z-scores were calculated with weight and height measurements. Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys evaluated children's food environments. The study protocol involved a feasible time duration, minimal missing data for primary variables, and participant satisfaction. Potential design problems included the homogeneous store environments and low restaurant exposure of the sample recruited from one school, and the adequacy of a single cross-sectional measure of the home environment.

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Annotated receipts capture household food purchases from a broad range of sources

Cited by 48 publications

References 25 publications

Where do food desert residents buy most of their junk food? Supermarkets

Where do food desert residents buy most of their junk food? Supermarkets

Buying health: assessing the impact of a consumer-side vegetable subsidy on purchasing, consumption and waste

Children's Food Store, Restaurant, and Home Food Environments and Their Relationship with Body Mass Index: A Pilot Study

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