Headline : Can food banks better promote nutrition and health?

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“Food banks can have nutrition policies that outline where they source food and which foods they prioritize," said Cassandra Nguyen, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist. Photo by Pam Kan-Rice

An estimated 53 million people in the U.S. turned to food banks and community programs for help putting food on the table in 2021. In recent decades, food banks have adopted policies and practices to make sure people not only have access to food but also healthy and nutritious food. 

But until now, food banks have had few ways to evaluate those initiatives. 

University of California, Davis, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Cassandra Nguyen led a team of researchers to develop the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment to address that concern. Their findings were published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.

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