FIELD NOTES: PEOPLE, PROGRAMS, & POLICIES:* Exploratory Evaluation of Home-Delivered Meal-kits within a Rural, Southern United States Community Food System. Issue 5 (3rd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wade, Amber; Gupta, Kritika; Holben, David H.
• Is Part Of: Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition. Volume 17:Issue 5(2022)
• Page Start: 718
• Page End: 721
• Publication Date: 2022-09-03
• Subjects: Meal-kits -- community food system -- food waste; Nutrition -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Hunger -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Food supply -- Periodicals; 613.2
• DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2047864
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1932-0248

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This preliminary project evaluated home-delivered meal-kits and their relationship to a sustainable community food system. An exploratory evaluation/case study was conducted to understand how meal-kit messaging may reduce food loss and waste. Box contents and inner and outer packaging materials, including marketing messages, were evaluated based on the FAO's food supply chain framework for community food systems. Home-delivered meal-kits may impact consumer behavior, decreasing food waste and loss. Studying the impact of meal-kit messaging on consumer behavior in rural and nonrural household may be a worthwhile avenue to decrease food and food packaging waste and loss in the United States.