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Children’s Food Security and Intakes from School Meals: Final Report

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  • Potamites, Elizabeth
  • Gordon, Anne

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Using 2005 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment survey, this study examines the contribution of school meals to the food and nutrient intake of children in food-secure, marginally secure, and food-insecure households. The study finds that children from food-insecure and marginally secure households receive a larger proportion of their food and nutrient intakes at school than do children from highly secure households. This difference is partially explained by the higher participation rates of the insecure and marginally secure in school meal programs. The average amount of foods and nutrients consumed were similar across food security levels, except that children from marginally secure households consumed fewer calories (and thus nutrients) than both other groups. Breakfast skipping was significantly more common among the food-insecure and marginally secure children. Even at schools with breakfast programs, 20 percent of children from food-insecure and marginally secure households did not eat breakfast, for reasons that will require further study to explore.

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  • Potamites, Elizabeth & Gordon, Anne, 2010. "Children’s Food Security and Intakes from School Meals: Final Report," Contractor and Cooperator Reports 292081, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerscc:292081
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292081
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    1. Ralston, Katherine & Treen, Katie & Coleman-Jensen, Alisha & Guthrie, Joanne, 2017. "Children’s Food Security and USDA Child Nutrition Programs," Economic Information Bulletin 259730, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Jeanne Bellotti & Ann Collins & Cheryl Owens & Charlotte Cabili & Christopher W. Logan & Carissa Climaco & Nora Paxton & Peter Relich & Saty Patrabansh, "undated". "Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Early Experiences through June 2011 of the Proof-of-Concept Year," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 465b6048a14646cd90cac895d, Mathematica Policy Research.

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