Intervention to Improve Access to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Among Arkansas Food Pantry Clients

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Long, Christopher R. ; Rowland, Brett ; McElfish, Pearl A.
• Description:
  Food pantries serve millions of Americans, yet the nutritional quality of foods distributed has been poor. Policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes were implemented in 3 food pantries in northwest Arkansas with the aims of improving the nutritional quality of foods distributed and increasing distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFVs). Between pre-intervention and 1 year follow-up, food pantry bag audits showed increases from 20,256.38 to 25,108.46 calories distributed per household (P = .009) and 0.22 to 3.33 servings of FFVs distributed per person per household (P < .001). Findings highlight the promise of pantry-level PSE interventions.
• Subjects:
  Brief Food Assistance Food Supply Fruit Humans Nutritive Value Poverty Vegetables
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 16
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180155
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  30676935
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6362706
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P20 GM109096/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States ; U54 TR001629/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States ; U58 DP005545/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Arkansas
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  16
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8d6daa8cd183bc558ac9d416fbd783de956d0977e86a4e2b151322594809cee279e2f18ea416db9a6b5dba97c97c49f406a1304ac9b72cb3a29986a13767c2d
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/77051/cdc_77051_DS1.pdf
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