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The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?

The aim was to describe the price of homemade street foods in four cities of Central Asia and Eastern Europe and to analyze its association with energy density, macronutrients, sodium and potassium contents. Cross-sectional evaluations of street food vending sites were conducted in Dushanbe, Tajikis...

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Autores principales: Albuquerque, Gabriela, Sousa, Sofia, Gelormini, Marcello, Lança de Morais, Inês, Casal, Susana, Pinho, Olívia, Damasceno, Albertino, Moreira, Pedro, Breda, João, Lunet, Nuno, Padrão, Patrícia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574095
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10091985
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author Albuquerque, Gabriela
Sousa, Sofia
Gelormini, Marcello
Lança de Morais, Inês
Casal, Susana
Pinho, Olívia
Damasceno, Albertino
Moreira, Pedro
Breda, João
Lunet, Nuno
Padrão, Patrícia
author_facet Albuquerque, Gabriela
Sousa, Sofia
Gelormini, Marcello
Lança de Morais, Inês
Casal, Susana
Pinho, Olívia
Damasceno, Albertino
Moreira, Pedro
Breda, João
Lunet, Nuno
Padrão, Patrícia
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description The aim was to describe the price of homemade street foods in four cities of Central Asia and Eastern Europe and to analyze its association with energy density, macronutrients, sodium and potassium contents. Cross-sectional evaluations of street food vending sites were conducted in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (n = 562), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (n = 384), Almaty, Kazakhstan (n = 236) and Chișinău, Moldova (n = 89) in 2016–2017. Information on the homemade street foods available, including price, was systematically collected; the most commonly available foods (n = 64) were sampled for chemical analysis. Prices were converted to international dollars ($) and expressed as $/serving, $/100 g and $/100 kcal. The median street food price was $1.00/serving, $0.85/100 g and $0.33/100 kcal. Traditional foods were cheaper per 100 g than the westernized ($0.77 vs. $1.00, p = 0.011). For each unit increase in energy density (kcal/g), the homemade street foods were $0.12 cheaper per 100 kcal and $0.11 more expensive per 100 g. The carbohydrate content was negatively associated with price per 100 kcal, while total fat, monounsaturated, saturated and trans-fatty acids content were positively associated with price per 100 g. Energy-dense homemade street foods were the cheapest. Further insight on food preparation might clarify the association between carbohydrates and monounsaturated fatty acids content and street food price.
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spelling pubmed-84651962021-09-27 The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value? Albuquerque, Gabriela Sousa, Sofia Gelormini, Marcello Lança de Morais, Inês Casal, Susana Pinho, Olívia Damasceno, Albertino Moreira, Pedro Breda, João Lunet, Nuno Padrão, Patrícia Foods Article The aim was to describe the price of homemade street foods in four cities of Central Asia and Eastern Europe and to analyze its association with energy density, macronutrients, sodium and potassium contents. Cross-sectional evaluations of street food vending sites were conducted in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (n = 562), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (n = 384), Almaty, Kazakhstan (n = 236) and Chișinău, Moldova (n = 89) in 2016–2017. Information on the homemade street foods available, including price, was systematically collected; the most commonly available foods (n = 64) were sampled for chemical analysis. Prices were converted to international dollars ($) and expressed as $/serving, $/100 g and $/100 kcal. The median street food price was $1.00/serving, $0.85/100 g and $0.33/100 kcal. Traditional foods were cheaper per 100 g than the westernized ($0.77 vs. $1.00, p = 0.011). For each unit increase in energy density (kcal/g), the homemade street foods were $0.12 cheaper per 100 kcal and $0.11 more expensive per 100 g. The carbohydrate content was negatively associated with price per 100 kcal, while total fat, monounsaturated, saturated and trans-fatty acids content were positively associated with price per 100 g. Energy-dense homemade street foods were the cheapest. Further insight on food preparation might clarify the association between carbohydrates and monounsaturated fatty acids content and street food price. MDPI 2021-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8465196/ /pubmed/34574095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10091985 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Albuquerque, Gabriela
Sousa, Sofia
Gelormini, Marcello
Lança de Morais, Inês
Casal, Susana
Pinho, Olívia
Damasceno, Albertino
Moreira, Pedro
Breda, João
Lunet, Nuno
Padrão, Patrícia
The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title_full The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title_fullStr The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title_full_unstemmed The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title_short The Price of Homemade Street Food in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Is There a Relation with Its Nutritional Value?
title_sort price of homemade street food in central asia and eastern europe: is there a relation with its nutritional value?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574095
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10091985
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