The feasibility and utility of grocery receipt analyses for dietary assessment

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• Alternative Title:
  Nutr J
• Personal Author:
  Martin, Sarah Levin ; Howell, Teresa ; Duan, Yan ; Walters, Michele
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To establish the feasibility and utility of a simple data collection methodology for dietary assessment.
  
  Design
  
  Using a cross-sectional design, trained data collectors approached adults (~20 – 40 years of age) at local grocery stores and asked whether they would volunteer their grocery receipts and answer a few questions for a small stipend ($1).
  
  Methods
  
  The grocery data were divided into 3 categories: "fats, oils, and sweets," "processed foods," and "low-fat/low-calorie substitutions" as a percentage of the total food purchase price. The questions assessed the shopper's general eating habits (eg, fast-food consumption) and a few demographic characteristics and health aspects (eg, perception of body size).
  
  Results
  
  Forty-eight receipts and questionnaires were collected. Nearly every respondent reported eating fast food at least once per month; 27% ate out once or twice a day. Frequency of fast-food consumption was positively related to perceived body size of the respondent (p = 0.02). Overall, 30% of the food purchase price was for fats, oils, sweets, 10% was for processed foods, and almost 6% was for low-fat/low-calorie substitutions. Households where no one was perceived to be overweight spent a smaller proportion of their food budget on fats, oils, and sweets than did households where at least one person was perceived to be overweight (p = 0.10); household where the spouse was not perceived to be overweight spent less on fats, oils, and sweets (p = 0.02) and more on low-fat/low-calorie substitutions (p = 0.09) than did households where the spouse was perceived to be overweight; and, respondents who perceived themselves to be overweight spent more on processed foods than did respondents who did not perceive themselves to be overweight (p = 0.06).
  
  Conclusion
  
  This simple dietary assessment method, although global in nature, may be a useful indicator of dietary practices as evidenced by its association with perceived weight status.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Body Weight Data Collection Dietary Carbohydrates Dietary Fats Dietary Fats, Unsaturated Diet Records Feasibility Studies Food Food Preferences Humans Nutrition Assessment Obesity Perception Questionnaires Short Report

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• Source:
  Nutr J. 2006; 5:10.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:7dd01b78ac4af4c705ceb47089c40a0b7556d2f164155fb5d88f7e2685d826fb
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