Evolution of nutritional quality in the US: Evidence from the ready-to-eat cereal industry

Emily Wang, Christian Rojas and Christoph Bauner

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 133, issue C, 105-108

Abstract: We construct historical nutrition quality indices for the ready-to-eat cereal industry and find that: (1) there exists a discrepancy between the nutrition quality of available products and that of the actual intake, (2) nutrition quality declined between 1988 and 2001 but has been increasing since then (although levels are still lower than in 1988), and (3) the decline in nutritional quality intake cannot be attributed to pricier or a limited availability of healthier options.

Keywords: Evolution of nutrition; Obesity; Ready-to-eat cereal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176515002165
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:133:y:2015:i:c:p:105-108

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.021

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().