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Giving food pantry clients choices - and gently nudging them toward nutritious foods - can lead to healthier diets
Caitlin Caspi, University of Connecticut
May 25, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) Food banks and pantries across the U.S. were forced in the pandemic to dispense with something that is central to most people’s grocery experience: choice.
Faced with social-distancing rules and a large uptick in need – by one estimate these nonprofits served 55% more people – for the most part, clients were offered prepacked bags or boxes of food rather than allowed to pick from shelves themselves, as was increasingly common before the pandemic.
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