Nonprofit market impact on fruit and vegetable intake and food security

Abstract

Opening new food stores in food deserts has the potential to improve diet quality and food security; however, nonprofit markets as a food store are scarcely examined. In this pretest/posttest study, 72 participants completed an online survey to report fruit and vegetable intake and food security status 30 days before and 30 days after shopping at a nonprofit market. While food security status did not change from baseline to follow-up, the frequency of shopping at the market was associated with an increase in fruit intake at the 30-day follow-up.