2026-05-21T17:02:17Zhttps://keep.lib.asu.edu/oai/requestoai:keep.lib.asu.edu:node-1610382021-11-04T16:16:39Zoai_pmh:alloai_pmh:repo_items161038
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.161038
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2016.11.006
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
open access
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
2016
2017-01-07
12 pages
eng
DeWeese, Robin
Ohri-Vachaspati, Punam
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<p><strong>Objective: </strong> This study compared the prices of unhealthy (chips) and healthy (ready-to-eat fruit) snacks that students are likely to purchase from corner stores.</p>
<p><strong>Methods: </strong> Snacks were purchased from 325 New Jersey corner stores; chip prices were compared with fruit prices overall and by store sales volume and block group characteristics.</p>
<p><strong>Results: </strong> Prices did not differ significantly between chips and fruit in the overall sample in which both items were available (n = 104) (chips: $0.46 ± $0.15; fruit: $0.49 ± $0.19; P = .48) or by store or block group characteristics. Neither mean fruit prices nor mean chip prices differed by store sales volume or by neighborhood characteristics.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusions and implications: </strong> Promoting ready-to-eat fruits in corner stores to children as a price-neutral alternative to calorically dense snacks can be a viable strategy to improve the nutritional quality of snacks commonly purchased at corner stores.</p>
Cost of Children's Healthy vs Unhealthy Snacks Does Not Differ at Convenience Stores