- Title
- The price of healthy and unhealthy foods in Australian primary school canteens
- Creator
- Wyse, Rebecca; Wiggers, John; Delaney, Tessa; Ooi, Jia Ying; Marshall, Josephine; Clinton-McHarg, Tara; Wolfenden, Luke
- Relation
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Vol. 41, Issue 1, p. 45-47
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12624
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Objective: To describe the price of Australian school canteen foods according to their nutritional value. Methods: Primary school canteen menus were collected as part of a policy compliance randomised trial. For each menu item, dietitians classified its nutritional value; ‘green’ (‘good sources of nutrients’), ‘amber’ (‘some nutritional value’), ‘red’ (‘lack adequate nutritional value’) and assigned a food category (e.g. ‘Drinks’, ‘Snacks’). Pricing information was extracted. Within each food category, ANOVAs assessed differences between the mean price of ‘green’, ‘amber’ and ‘red’ items, and post-hoc tests were conducted. Results: Seventy of the 124 invited schools participated. There were significant differences in the mean price of ‘green’, ‘amber’ and ‘red foods’ across categories, with ‘green’ items more expensive than ‘amber’ items in main-meal categories (‘Sandwiches’ +$0.43, ‘Hot Foods’ +$0.71), and the reverse true for non-meal categories (‘Drinks’ −$0.13, ‘Snacks’ −$0.18, ‘Frozen Snacks’ −$0.25^). Conclusion: Current pricing may not encourage the purchasing of healthy main-meal items by and for students. Further investigation of pricing strategies that enhance the public health benefit of existing school canteen policies and practices are warranted. Implications for Public Health: Providing support to canteen managers regarding healthy canteen policies may have a positive impact on public health nutrition.
- Subject
- nutrition; schools; public health; students; pricing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1353138
- Identifier
- uon:31057
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-0200
- Rights
- © 2016 The Authors. CC-BY This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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