Acceptability and Willingness to Pay for a Meal Kit Program for African American Families with Low Income: A Pilot Study
| Autor: | Kaley Carman, Lisa House, Lauren Sweeney, Anne E. Mathews, Karla P. Shelnutt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Low income
Adult Male Social Determinants of Health Cost-Benefit Analysis Pilot Projects Article Willingness to pay Intervention (counseling) Environmental health acceptability Humans TX341-641 Cookbooks as Topic African American Meal Nutrition and Dietetics Food security affordability cooking Descriptive statistics Nutrition. Foods and food supply Recipe digestive oral and skin physiology Feeding Behavior food security Consumer Behavior Middle Aged meal kit Black or African American home cooking Food Insecurity Incentive nutrition Income Female Food Assistance Diet Healthy Psychology Nutritive Value low income Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients, Vol 13, Iss 2881, p 2881 (2021) Nutrients Volume 13 Issue 8 |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| Popis: | Food insecurity is a persistent issue among individuals with low income and is associated with various nutrition- and health-related consequences. Creative approaches to increasing food access should be investigated as possible solutions. Meal kits, which are boxes or bags of fresh and shelf-stable ingredients for one or more meals, along with a step-by-step recipe showing how to cook each meal at home, may serve as a creative solution. Meal kits have historically been marketed to higher-income demographics. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the utilization, acceptability, and willingness to pay for a healthy meal kit program among African American main food preparers with children and low income (n = 36). Participants received a healthy meal kit with three recipes and ingredients, a cooking incentive, and a nutrition handout weekly for six weeks. Data were collected on participants’ use, acceptability, and willingness to pay for the meal kits and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The intervention was highly utilized, and participants reported high acceptability ratings for most recipes. After the intervention, participants were willing to pay $88.61 ± 47.47 for a meal kit with three meals, each with four portions, which was higher than indicated at baseline and similar to the cost to produce the kits. Meal kits may offer a creative solution to improving food access if affordable for families with low income. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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