Do SNAP and WIC Programs Encourage More Fruit and Vegetable Intake? A Household Survey in the Northern Great Plains

Kuo-Liang Chang (), Marjorie Zastrow (), Christina Zdorovtsov (), Ryan Quast (), Larissa Skjonsberg () and Suzanne Stluka ()

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 36, issue 4, 477-490

Abstract: Corn Belt US has constantly showed low fruit and vegetable (F & V) consumption. One of the policy suggestions to increase F & V consumption is to implement government food subsidies for low- and no-income families. In this study, we conducted a household food-choice survey study and the results suggested that both Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and Women, Infant, and Children programs had significant effects on increasing F & V consumption. However, those effects varied by family characteristics, dietary habit, and living environment. Moreover, exercise habits, family support, and the willingness to make healthy choices had more influences on increasing F &V intake than did demographic background, socio-economic variables, and living environment variables. We also found an inconsistent pattern of how nutrition knowledge affects F & V consumption. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: SNAP/WIC; Factor and cluster analysis; Ordered probit model; Fruit and vegetable intakes; D12; H23; I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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