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Changes in SNAP participation and food expenditures for households with children during the pandemic Open

Mary K. Muth, Erin Love, Abigail M. Okrent, Acelynn Bock, Darryl Creel , et al. · 2025

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), provides food benefits to low-income families so they can afford to purchase more nutritious…

Added Sugar Intake Among Infants in Low-Income Households: Amount Consumed and Dietary Source Open

Jigna Dharod, Maureen M. Black, Valerie L. Flax, Mary K. Muth, Kierra M. P. Sattler , et al. · 2024

Objectives: To determine the amount and sources of added sugar intake during complementary feeding and the association between added sugar and weight status among racially and ethnically diverse infants in low-income households in the Unit…

Development of the Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices data Open

Megan Sweitzer, Anne T. Byrne, Elina T. Page, Alex R. Carlson, Linda Scott Kantor , et al. · 2024

The Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices (F-MAP) data product provides detailed food price data to support a broad range of food economics research, supplementing existing public food price data. The data product contains monthly mean unit val…

Biodiversity effects of food system sustainability actions from farm to fork Open

Quentin D. Read, Kelly L. Hondula, Mary K. Muth · 2022

Significance The food system’s negative impact on biodiversity is increasing over time. Conserving biodiversity requires immediate and widespread action to reduce the biodiversity footprint of food consumption, but biodiversity has histori…

BCA volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Back matter Open

Arthur Ku, John Graham, Jonathan Schwabish, Rosemarie L. Summers, Dallas Wood , et al. · 2022

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Reducing Water Scarcity by Reducing Food Loss and Waste Open

Landon Marston, Quentin D. Read, Shawn P. Brown, Mary K. Muth · 2021

Water scarcity is a pervasive threat to society that is expected to intensify alongside a growing and more affluent population and a changing climate. In this paper, we review the existing literature to assess the potential of lessening wa…

Agreements Between Public Health Organizations and Food and Beverage Companies: Approaches to Improving Evaluation Open

Jean L. Wiecha, Mary K. Muth · 2021

Efforts in the United States and abroad to address the chronic disease epidemic have led to the emergence of voluntary industry agreements as a substitute for regulatory approaches to improve the healthfulness of foods and beverages. Becau…

Better Evaluation Can Improve the Effectiveness of Agreements Between Public Health Organizations and Food and Beverage Companies Open

Jean L. Wiecha, Mary K. Muth · 2021

Most Americans consume diets at odds with nutrition recommendations, contributing to our ongoing epidemics of noncommunicable diseases. One strategy for accelerating progress toward healthier diets involves formal agreements between compan…

Data from: Biodiversity effects of food system sustainability actions from farm to fork Open

Quentin D. Read, Mary K. Muth, Kelly L. Hondula · 2021

The data archived here are the raw data required to reproduce all analysis presented in a manuscript published in PNAS.Read, Q. D., Hondula, K. L., & Muth, M. K. Biodiversity effects of food system sustainability actions from farm t…

Data from: Cost-effectiveness of four food waste interventions: is food waste reduction a "win-win?" Open

Quentin D. Read, Mary K. Muth · 2020

The data archived here are the raw data required to reproduce all analysis presented in a manuscript currently in press at Resources, Conservation & Recycling.Read, Q. D. & Muth, M. K. (2020). Cost-effectiveness of four food waste i…

Assessing the environmental impacts of halving food loss and waste along the food supply chain Open

Quentin D. Read, Shawn P. Brown, Amanda Cuéllar, Steven M. Finn, Jessica A. Gephart , et al. · 2019

Validation of a digitally displayed photographic food portion-size estimation aid among women in urban and rural Malawi Open

Valerie L. Flax, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Courtney Schnefke, Heather Stobaugh, John Phuka , et al. · 2019

Objective: To validate digitally displayed photographic portion-size estimation aids (PSEA) against a weighed meal record and compare findings with an atlas of printed photographic PSEA and actual prepared-food PSEA in a low-income country…

Optimizing portion-size estimation aids: a formative evaluation in Malawi Open

Courtney Schnefke, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Mary K. Muth, John Phuka, Jennifer Coates , et al. · 2019

Objective: To investigate preferences for and ease-of-use perceptions of different aspects of printed and digitally displayed photographic portion-size estimation aids (PSEA) in a low-resource setting and to document accuracy of portion-si…

Using Trials of Improved Practices to identify practices to address the double burden of malnutrition among Rwandan children Open

Pamela Williams-Piehota, Courtney Schnefke, Valerie L. Flax, Solange Nyirampeta, Heather Stobaugh , et al. · 2019

Objective: Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are increasingly experiencing the double burden of malnutrition. Studies to identify ‘double-duty’ actions that address both undernutrition and overweight in sub-Saharan Africa are needed.…

A systems approach to assessing environmental and economic effects of food loss and waste interventions in the United States Open

Mary K. Muth, Catherine Birney, Amanda Cuéllar, Steven M. Finn, Mark Freeman , et al. · 2019

Validation of a Digitally Displayed Photographic Food Portion Size Estimation Aid Among Women in Urban and Rural Malawi (P13-012-19) Open

Valerie L. Flax, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Courtney Schnefke, Heather Stobaugh, John Phuka , et al. · 2019

How Much Can Product Reformulation Improve Diet Quality in Households with Children and Adolescents? Open

Mary K. Muth, Shawn Karns, Lisa Mancino, Jessica E. Todd · 2019

Improvements in the healthfulness of packaged foods and beverages through reformulation could help reduce the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents through improved diet quality. This study assessed changes in calories and f…

Nutritional Epidemiology Open

Courtney Schnefke, Chrissie Thakwalakwa Kantukule, Mary K. Muth, John Phuka, Jennifer Coates , et al. · 2018

Objectives: Current dietary recall methods used in low-resource settings are prone to errors in portion size estimation.This study investigated the preference for, ease of use perceptions, and accuracy of visual variables in portion size e…

Expert Panel on Technical Questions and Data Gaps for the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) Data Series Open

Mary K. Muth, Kristen Capogrossi Giombi, Marc F. Bellemare, Brenna Ellison, Brian Roe , et al. · 2018

The Economic Research Service’s (ERS’s) Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) data series is derived from ERS’s Food Availability (FA) data by adjusting for food spoilage, plate waste, and other losses to more closely approximate actual i…

Costs of Food Safety Investments in the Meat and Poultry Slaughter Industries Open

Catherine Viator, Mary K. Muth, Jenna Brophy, Gary Noyes · 2017

To develop regulations efficiently, federal agencies need to know the costs of implementing various regulatory alternatives. As the regulatory agency responsible for the safety of meat and poultry products, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's …

Food-at-Home Expenditures: Comparing Commercial Household Scanner Data From IRI and Government Survey Data Open

Megan Sweitzer, Derick Brown, Shawn Karns, Mary K. Muth, Peter Siegel , et al. · 2017

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) purchased proprietary household and retail scanner data from market research firm IRI for use in economic research. In a series of studies, ERS and collaborators evaluated the statistical properties o…

Understanding IRI Household-Based and Store-Based Scanner Data Open

Mary K. Muth, Megan Sweitzer, Derick Brown, Kristen Capogrossi, Shawn Karns , et al. · 2016

Commercial scanner data on retail food purchases are an integral resource for a broad range of food policy research. ERS has acquired proprietary household and retail scanner data from IRI, a market research firm, including novel data on n…

Perceived stress, unhealthy eating behaviors, and severe obesity in low-income women Open

Andrea S. Richardson, Joanne E Arsenault, Sheryl Cates, Mary K. Muth · 2015

Improving stress coping strategies for low-income women may improve eating behaviors and reduce severe obesity.

Beyond the sticker price: including and excluding time in comparing food prices Open

Yanliang Yang, George C. Davis, Mary K. Muth · 2015

Do Differences in Reported Expenditures between Commercial Household-based Scanner Data and Government Surveys Matter in a Structural Model of Food Demand? Open

Chen Zhen, Mary K. Muth, Shawn Karns, Derick Brown, Peter Siegel · 2015

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