Table A3.

Different Ideas of ‘Adequate Food’.

Citation	Definition
Dietary Needs
Shapouri, 2010, p. v [108]	Consuming less than the nutritional target of 2100 calories per day per person.
Nutritious (and Safe)
Alaimo, 2005 [18]	Food insecurity: limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate or safe foods.
Life Sciences Research Office and Andersen, 1990 [24]	Food insecurity: whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain.
Blumberg et al., 1999, p. 1231 [79]	Assured access to nutritionally adequate and safe foods without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, and other coping strategies.
Wood et al., 2000 [88]	The state in which all persons obtain a nutritionally adequate, culturally acceptable diet at all times through local, non-emergency sources.
Life Sciences Research Office and Andersen, 1990 [24]	Access by all members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods; assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (i.e., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).
Quality
Prifti, 2021, p. 238 [72]	A function of availability of adequate food in terms of quantity and quality and the people’s ability to afford it at all times.
Multifaceted
Winne et al., 2000, p. 4 [59]	All persons in a community have access to culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate food through local non-emergency sources at all times.
Committee on World Food Security, 2012 [46]	When all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life.
Davitt et al., 2021 [94]	Food insecurity: diminished variety, quality, and desirability of diet as well as decreased access to food.
Donley and Gualtieri, 2015 [95]	Food insecurity: lacking enough money to buy the amount and variety of food one needs or wants.
FAO, 2009 [2]	Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Food Forward, 2019 [97]	Food insecurity: lack of access to enough, good, healthy, and culturally appropriate food.
Niles et al., 2020 [103]	Food insecurity: the lack of consistent physical, social, and economic access to adequate and nutritious food that meets dietary needs and food preferences.
World Food Summit, 1996 [2]	When all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.