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Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia
Only 5% of Australian children and adults eat enough fruit and vegetables. Two common barriers are high cost and limited access. Food co-operatives (‘co-ops’) may have the potential to reduce these barriers. We conducted a scoping analysis of food co-ops in the Sydney region to describe their charac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32532100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114154 |
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author | Mihrshahi, Seema Partridge, Stephanie R. Zheng, Xiaolei Ramachandran, Divya Chia, Debbie Boylan, Sinead Chau, Josephine Y. |
author_facet | Mihrshahi, Seema Partridge, Stephanie R. Zheng, Xiaolei Ramachandran, Divya Chia, Debbie Boylan, Sinead Chau, Josephine Y. |
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description | Only 5% of Australian children and adults eat enough fruit and vegetables. Two common barriers are high cost and limited access. Food co-operatives (‘co-ops’) may have the potential to reduce these barriers. We conducted a scoping analysis of food co-ops in the Sydney region to describe their characteristics and objectives. We also conducted a survey of members and non-members of co-ops to assess their fruit and vegetable intake using validated questions. Fifteen food co-ops were identified in the Sydney region and the most common objective was to provide cheap affordable produce. Most co-ops (61%) were in areas of high socio-economic status (SES). Members of food co-ops had a higher vegetable intake than non-members [mean difference (MD) = 0.54 serves/daily; 95% confidence interval (CI) of 0.15 to 0.93] and were also more likely to meet the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake [odds ratio (OR) = 4.77 (95% CI = 1.15, 19.86)]. Implications of this study are that if food co-ops can be implemented on a wider scale, they hold potential for improving fruit and vegetable intakes. |
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spelling | pubmed-73124962020-06-29 Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia Mihrshahi, Seema Partridge, Stephanie R. Zheng, Xiaolei Ramachandran, Divya Chia, Debbie Boylan, Sinead Chau, Josephine Y. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Only 5% of Australian children and adults eat enough fruit and vegetables. Two common barriers are high cost and limited access. Food co-operatives (‘co-ops’) may have the potential to reduce these barriers. We conducted a scoping analysis of food co-ops in the Sydney region to describe their characteristics and objectives. We also conducted a survey of members and non-members of co-ops to assess their fruit and vegetable intake using validated questions. Fifteen food co-ops were identified in the Sydney region and the most common objective was to provide cheap affordable produce. Most co-ops (61%) were in areas of high socio-economic status (SES). Members of food co-ops had a higher vegetable intake than non-members [mean difference (MD) = 0.54 serves/daily; 95% confidence interval (CI) of 0.15 to 0.93] and were also more likely to meet the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake [odds ratio (OR) = 4.77 (95% CI = 1.15, 19.86)]. Implications of this study are that if food co-ops can be implemented on a wider scale, they hold potential for improving fruit and vegetable intakes. MDPI 2020-06-10 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312496/ /pubmed/32532100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114154 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mihrshahi, Seema Partridge, Stephanie R. Zheng, Xiaolei Ramachandran, Divya Chia, Debbie Boylan, Sinead Chau, Josephine Y. Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title | Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title_full | Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title_fullStr | Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title_short | Food Co-Operatives: A Potential Community-Based Strategy to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Australia |
title_sort | food co-operatives: a potential community-based strategy to improve fruit and vegetable intake in australia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32532100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114154 |
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