It has been hypothesized that low access to healthy and nutritious food increases health disparities. Low-accessibility areas, called food deserts, are particularly commonplace in lower-income neighborhoods. The metrics for measuring the food environment’s health, called food desert indices, are primari...
As fresh food stores leave a neighbourhood, residents find it harder to eat well and stay healthy. Food deserts are linked with lower local health outcomes, and they may be a driving force in the health disparities between lower- income and affluent people in the US. Until recently, the iss...
Neighborhood Food Insecurity Index to Identify Food Vulnerability and Food Deserts in the United Statesneighborhood food insecurity indexfood desertsvulnerabilityThe USDA's definition of food deserts, which is based on the distance to store and a neighborhood's income, seems to be inadequate to ...
However, it’s likely those same customers who are going to feel the impact of the closures most. In many rural and urban food deserts, dollar stores have come to double as grocery stores, though critics have pointed out that their existence doesn’t actually solve many food se...
The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) defines a food dessert as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food provide...
Social and ethnic-racial inequities in the occurrence of food deserts in a Brazilian capital. Food Secur. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-024-01450-3 Article Google Scholar Li M, Ashuri B. Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood wealth, and the surrounding food environment in Fulton...
Products that are most commonly preserved include ready-made dishes and sauces, meat and fish products, fizzy drinks, and ready-made deserts [9, 10]. Other substances used as preservatives are acids and acidity regulators. These substances lower the pH level and slow down the growth of enzymes...
(Fig.3b; Pearson CorrelationR = 0.78,p < 10−5; Two-sided Student’st-test; Methods). Lastly, the digital food logs data replicate previous findings of relative consumption differences in low-income, low-access food deserts based on Nielsen purchase data45(Fig.3c; Pearson ...
Grasses have adapted to the full range of environmental extremes occupied by plants, from the coldest regions and highest elevations where plants grow to equatorial heat, and from fully aquatic habitats to deserts. These remarkably adaptable plants play significant, sometimes dominant, roles in many ...
Areas called “food deserts” have limited access to affordable and nutritious food, making it harder for residents to maintain a healthy diet. In the U.S., there are counties that do not have a single grocery store, mainly in the Great Plains and Midwest regions. Food Deserts in the U....