@article{Mancino:302915, recid = {302915}, author = {Mancino, Lisa and Gregory, Christian A.}, title = {Food-Insecure Households Score Lower on Diet Quality Compared to Food-Secure Households}, journal = {Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America}, address = {2020-03-02}, number = {1490-2020-883}, month = {Mar}, year = {2020}, abstract = {ERS researchers scored the nutritional quality of a week’s worth of food purchases and acquisitions by low-income food-secure and food-insecure households. For every 1,000 calories of food at home acquired, food-secure households acquired more total fruit, whole fruit, total protein, and seafood and plant proteins compared with food-insecure households.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/302915}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.302915}, }