UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health

Using an embedded mixed-methods approach, this study assesses efforts to improve nutritional quality of inventory at food banks. All else equal, food banks with medium and high levels of nutrition-focused food banking strategy adoption had lower mean percentages of unhealthy inventory compared to those with none.

Full citation: Roth S, Feldman M, Schwartz M, Prelip M. A Mixed-methods Study of Nutrition-focused Food Banking in the United States. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 2022. http://www.doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2030272