Food Bank-Based Sample Clauses

Food Bank-Based. Nutrition Initiatives One food bank outlier that deserves recognition for an early and big step forward in nutrition policy and client preference research is the Food Bank of Central New York’s “No Soda and No Candy” policy on donated foods, which began in 2004. This policy allowed the FBCNY to focus its’ efforts on the procurement and distribution of healthier foods such as fruits and vegetables, which happen to be more difficult for their clients to access themselves.49 Following the findings of poor diet quality among food pantry users from the 2010 Hunger in America report, Feeding America developed a partnership with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the National Dairy Council to create a platform of healthy foods to encourage.48 These include low-fat and fat-free dairy products, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, water, and lean proteins. This partnership was designed to develop nutrition guidelines for food banks to encourage acquiring and distributing healthy, nutritionally dense foods to provide food insecure individuals and families. Since 2010, there has been a push among food banks to offer incentives to their partner agency network to offer more nutritionally-dense foods and nutrition education workshops.48-53 Moreover, in recent years there has been a desire to employ nutrition educators by food banks to translate nutrition knowledge to soup kitchen and food pantry directors and donors.50,51,53,54 At the food bank level, food banks in the FA network are provided with information and recipes on “foods to encourage” through the Healthy Food Bank Hub and a system of 22 food categories to sort their inventory (Baby Food/Formula, Beverages, Bread/Bakery, etc.).48 Other food banks, within and outside of the FA network, have adopted a different nutrition-focused system: the Choosing Healthy Options Program (CHOP). Due to the rising concern of food quality available to the nutritionally vulnerable, in 2004 the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in collaboration with XXXXX: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a national nonprofit organization that works to end hunger in the United States and Israel, developed Choosing Healthy Options Program (CHOP), which seeks to promote the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of healthier food.52 CHOP is still grounded in the idea that there are foods to encourage, though it uses a slightly different algorithm than FA to categorize foods into three main categories: 1) Foods to consume frequently, 2) foo...