Food Insecurity and Less Frequent Cooking Dinner at Home Are Associated with Lower Diet Quality in a National Sample of Low-Income Adults in the United States during the Initial Months of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

• Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vol. 122; no. 10; pp. 1893 - 1902.e12
• Main Authors: Wolfson, Julia A., Posluszny, Hannah, Kronsteiner-Gicevic, Selma, Willett, Walter, Leung, Cindy W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2022; by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Subjects: Adult; Cooking; Cooking frequency; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 infection; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diet; Diet quality; dietetics; dinner; Female; Food Insecurity; food quality; food security; Food Supply; healthy diet; Humans; Internet; Male; Meals; pandemic; Pandemics; Poverty; questionnaires; regression analysis; surveys; United States - epidemiology; United States; COVID-19; Food insecurity; Cooking frequency; Diet quality

Food insecurity is a critical public health problem in the United States that has been associated with poor diet quality. Cooking dinner more frequently is associated with better diet quality. This study aimed to examine how food insecurity and dinner cooking frequency are associated with diet quali...