Food Intake Patterns and Plate Waste Among Community Meal Center Guests Show Room for Improvement

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 506-515

  Freedman, Marjorie R ^a   Bartoli, Catherine ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community meal center; food intake; RACC; weighted plate waste

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; STARCH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAD; COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER GUEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; FRUIT VEGETABLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PLATE WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; VEGETABLE; WASTE;

EID: 84889643392     PISSN: 19320248     EISSN: 19320256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2013.787380     Document Type: Article

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