Public health nutrition, 2008-04, Vol.11 (4), p.395-404
2008
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- Titel
- Linear programming can help identify practical solutions to improve the nutritional quality of food aid
- Ist Teil von
- Public health nutrition, 2008-04, Vol.11 (4), p.395-404
- Ort / Verlag
- Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- To assess the nutritional quality of food aid delivered by food banks in France and to identify practical modifications to improve it. National-level data were collected for all food aid distributed by French food banks in 2004, and its nutrient content per 2000 kcal was estimated and compared with French recommendations for adults. Starting with the actual donation and allowing new foods into the food aid donation, linear programming was used to identify the minimum changes required in the actual donation to achieve the French recommendations. French food-bank-delivered food aid does not achieve the French recommendations for dietary fibre, ascorbic acid, vitamin D, folate, magnesium, docosahexaenoic acid, alpha-linolenic acid and the percentage of energy from saturated fatty acids. Linear programming analysis showed that these recommendations are achievable if more fruits, vegetables, legumes and fish were collected and less cheese, refined cereals and foods rich in fat, sugar and/or salt. In addition, new foods not previously collected are needed, particularly nuts, wholemeal bread and rapeseed oil. These changes increased the total edible weight (42%) and economic value (55%) of the food aid donation, with one-third of its edible weight coming from fruits and vegetables, one-third from staples, one-quarter from dairy products and approximately a tenth from meat/fish/eggs. Important changes in the types and amounts of food collected will improve the nutritional quality of food-bank-delivered food aid in France. Such changes are recommended to improve the diets of deprived French populations.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1368-9800, 1475-2727eISSN: 1475-2727DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007000511Titel-ID: cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_02664167v1
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- Schlagworte
- Ascorbic acid, Cereals, Changes, cheeses, Conflicts of interest, Dairy products, Diet, Diet - standards, Dietary fiber, Docosahexaenoic acid, Donations, Energy, European Union, fatty acid composition, Fatty acids, Fish, Fish eggs, fish products, Folic acid, Food, Food - standards, Food aid, Food and Nutrition, Food banks, food donations, Food poverty, Food programs, Food quality, Food Services - standards, food supply, foods, France, Fruit, Fruits, fruits (food), Humans, Legumes, Life Sciences, Linear Models, Linear programming, Linolenic acid, Magnesium, Meat, Nutrient content, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition assessment, Nutrition education, Nutrition Policy, nutritional adequacy, Nutritional quality, Nutritional Requirements, Nutritive Value, Nuts, Poverty, Public health, Quality assessment, Quality Control, Rapeseed, Rapeseed oil, saturated fatty acids, Seafood, Staples, sweets, Vegetables, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, whole grain foods