Rudd Study: Food Pantry Clients Seek Fruits and Vegetables, Despite Limited Availability
Survey results from food pantries also reveal the importance of client choice
Food pantry clients say they want fresh fruits and vegetables, but that those aren t always available (Unsplash Photo/Sven Scheuermeier). Copy Link
Eighty-five percent of food pantry clients say that fresh fruits and vegetables are important to have at every visit, but only 51% of clients say they are actually available each time, according to a recent study from researchers at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
Many food pantry clients have diet-related health conditions, making it particularly important to ensure that the foods available at pantries provide adequate nutrition. Despite an emerging understanding of this need, it is still difficult for pantries to obtain the data necessary to grasp the true wants and characteristics of their clients.
Caitlin Caspi, ScD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and serves as the Director of Food Security Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. She joined the Department of Allied Health Sciences as Associate Professor in 2020, coming from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Caspi is a social epidemiologist with a research interest in evaluating policies and interventions addressing the social determinants of health, particularly diet and obesity. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator on two NIH R01 studies addressing food insecurity and diet-related health disparities. The first is a group-randomized study evaluating the impact a behavioral economic intervention (SuperShelf) in food pantries on dietary outcomes of adults experiencing food insecurity. The second is a natural experiment testing the effect of the Minneapolis Minimum Wage Ordinance, which incrementally rais
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