Retail cost and energy adjusted cost are associated with dietary diversity and nutrient adequacy for diets of 6–24 months children
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Date
2022
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MDPI
Abstract
Poor nutrition during the first two years of life has long term consequences, but resourcepoor
households often do not have the means to access nutrient-dense and diverse diets. Pooled data
of 24-h dietary recalls (n = 3336) and 2019 retail food prices were analyzed to determine associations
of retail cost and energy cost (per 100 kcal) with diet quality indicators for diets of 6–24-monthold
South African children who were breastfed (BF-diet) and not breastfed (NBF-diet) during the
24-h recall period. Compared to the BF-diet, retail cost for the NBF-diet was three times higher for
age 6–11 months, and double for age 12–17 months.
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Keywords
Nutrition, Dietry, Low- and middle income countries, Food sciences, Food security
Citation
Mulabisano, T. A. et al. (2022). Retail cost and energy adjusted cost are associated with dietary diversity and nutrient adequacy for diets of 6–24 months children. Nutrients, 14(16), 3376. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14163376