Draw and Tell: Dietary Acculturation as Lived by Black Immigrant Children of African and Caribbean Descent Residing in Canada

Food environment interactions after migration: a scoping review on low- and middle-income country immigrants in high-income countries

“…Personal food preferences for high-energetic foods was a barrier to eating healthier. Blanchet et al, 2017 (72) To explore immigrant children's lived experience of dietary acculturation About 10 years (10•6 years; (26) To examine factors affecting the food choices of Latino immigrant mushroom farm workers and their families (27) To assess food choices, shopping and spending practices among the Southeast Asian refugee group of "Montagnard" resettled in the USA Had lived in the USA on average 6 years Montagnard refugee women (n 12); Convenience and snowball sampling Quantitative; grocery food receipt analyses Visited several stores for acquiring food, both from regular stores and ethnic stores. Distance, familiarity with the food choices and relationships with owners in ethnic stores were important determinants of store choice.…”

“…Finally, a total of sixty-eight articles were eligible for inclusion. Out of sixty-eight articles, the vast majority (forty five) studied populations living in the USA ; ten were based in Canada (70)(71)(72)(73)(74)(75)(76)(77)(78)(79) , seven from Australia (80)(81)(82)(83)(84)(85)(86) , three from the UK (87)(88)(89) , one from Switzerland (90) , one from Norway (2) and one from the Netherlands (91) . The immigrant groups were from Asia, Africa, Middle East, South and Central America and the Caribbean.…”

“…Children of immigrants were introduced to host country foods including highly processed foods through school food (30,39,49,58,63,65,69,71,72,91) , which also led to a change in preferences (63,69) . For packed lunches, mothers soon stopped sending traditional food as they came back uneaten and learnt how to make lunchboxes in the way of the host country (2,71,91) .…”

“Food is Environmentally and Culturally Specific!”: A Preliminary Qualitative Study on U.S. Immigrant Parents’ Perceptions of School Lunch

“…On food choices by immigrant children in North America, studies such as those of Wang et al (2016), Wang et al (2011), Chen et al (2011), Blanchet et al (2017) [2,3,6,7], and many others have examined such important issues as food choices and food intake by Asian (Chinese, Korean, etc. ), Latino, sub-Saharan African, and Caribbean immigrants living in the United States of America (USA) and Canada.…”

“…Most of the studies mentioned above have focused on overweight and obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases found among immigrant (including refugee) children and adolescents. For example, in their study of 167 school-aged black immigrant children of sub-Saharan African and Caribbean descent's lived experiences in Canada regarding dietary acculturation, Blanchet et al (2017) [7], discovered that there were differences in the foods between Canada and those of their countries of origin. Specifically, using drawings by their studied participants, the authors discovered that whereas none of the top 10 foods drawn by the children from their countries of origin were highly processed, those drawn as being Canadian were highly processed.…”