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Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings
BACKGROUND: Food environment transformations are needed to improve population diets. Systems to monitor food environment transformations are often lacking, but can be useful to assess retail and food-service performances over time. Therefore, we aimed to measure the healthiness of supermarkets and o...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10596950/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1021 |
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author | Poelman, M P Dijkstra, S C Djojosoeparto, S K Winkel, D Linnebank, C Seidell, J C de Vet, E Kamphuis, CBM |
author_facet | Poelman, M P Dijkstra, S C Djojosoeparto, S K Winkel, D Linnebank, C Seidell, J C de Vet, E Kamphuis, CBM |
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description | BACKGROUND: Food environment transformations are needed to improve population diets. Systems to monitor food environment transformations are often lacking, but can be useful to assess retail and food-service performances over time. Therefore, we aimed to measure the healthiness of supermarkets and out-of-home settings, including the assortment, price promotions, in-store promotions, and food marketing to children. METHODS: Web-scraping techniques were used to collect data on food assortment (n = 37761 products) for 6 supermarket chains (market value=72%). All products were categorized by food group and whether they contributed to a healthy diet (yes/no). During 8 weeks, price-promotions were collected for 8 supermarket chains (n = 23239 promotions). To identify instore promotions (n = 7757 products) and food marketing to children (14 product categories, n = 2,681 products), 40 supermarkets (8 chains) were visited. Similar data was gathered for out-of-home settings. RESULTS: 80% of the food assortment and 80% of the products featuring in supermarkets’ price- and in-store promotions were not supportive of a healthy diet. In addition, 73% of the check-outs offered snacks, but lacked healthy options. 97% of the food marketing to children was for products not supporting healthy diets. The top five most available food products in supermarkets were: non-alcoholic beverages, alcohol, sweets, biscuits, meat, and poultry (36% of the entire assortment). Non-alcoholic drinks, sweets and confections, alcoholic beverages, dairy, and ready-to-eat meals were the most featured products in price-promotions. Even less supportive observations were found for out-of-home settings. CONCLUSIONS: Dutch food environments primarily consist of products and promotions that do not contribute to a healthy diet. Regular monitoring is needed to identify whether policies are effective to improve food environments. KEY MESSAGES: • The current food assortment, price promotions, in-store promotions, and food marketing to children of supermarkets and out-of-home settings are not supportive of healthy food choices. • Monitoring food environments can be useful to assess retail and food-service performances over time, and to identify whether policies are effective to improve food environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-105969502023-10-25 Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings Poelman, M P Dijkstra, S C Djojosoeparto, S K Winkel, D Linnebank, C Seidell, J C de Vet, E Kamphuis, CBM Eur J Public Health Poster Walks BACKGROUND: Food environment transformations are needed to improve population diets. Systems to monitor food environment transformations are often lacking, but can be useful to assess retail and food-service performances over time. Therefore, we aimed to measure the healthiness of supermarkets and out-of-home settings, including the assortment, price promotions, in-store promotions, and food marketing to children. METHODS: Web-scraping techniques were used to collect data on food assortment (n = 37761 products) for 6 supermarket chains (market value=72%). All products were categorized by food group and whether they contributed to a healthy diet (yes/no). During 8 weeks, price-promotions were collected for 8 supermarket chains (n = 23239 promotions). To identify instore promotions (n = 7757 products) and food marketing to children (14 product categories, n = 2,681 products), 40 supermarkets (8 chains) were visited. Similar data was gathered for out-of-home settings. RESULTS: 80% of the food assortment and 80% of the products featuring in supermarkets’ price- and in-store promotions were not supportive of a healthy diet. In addition, 73% of the check-outs offered snacks, but lacked healthy options. 97% of the food marketing to children was for products not supporting healthy diets. The top five most available food products in supermarkets were: non-alcoholic beverages, alcohol, sweets, biscuits, meat, and poultry (36% of the entire assortment). Non-alcoholic drinks, sweets and confections, alcoholic beverages, dairy, and ready-to-eat meals were the most featured products in price-promotions. Even less supportive observations were found for out-of-home settings. CONCLUSIONS: Dutch food environments primarily consist of products and promotions that do not contribute to a healthy diet. Regular monitoring is needed to identify whether policies are effective to improve food environments. KEY MESSAGES: • The current food assortment, price promotions, in-store promotions, and food marketing to children of supermarkets and out-of-home settings are not supportive of healthy food choices. • Monitoring food environments can be useful to assess retail and food-service performances over time, and to identify whether policies are effective to improve food environments. Oxford University Press 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10596950/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1021 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Poster Walks Poelman, M P Dijkstra, S C Djojosoeparto, S K Winkel, D Linnebank, C Seidell, J C de Vet, E Kamphuis, CBM Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title | Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title_full | Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title_fullStr | Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title_short | Monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
title_sort | monitoring the healthiness of food environments in supermarkets and out-of-home settings |
topic | Poster Walks |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10596950/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1021 |
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