Table A5.

Different Ideas of ‘Culturally or Socially Acceptable Means’.

Citation	Definition
Non-Emergency Means
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.
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 [89]	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).
Monetary Means
United Health Foundation, 2022 [17]	Food insecurity: households unable to provide adequate food for one or more household members due to lack of resources,
Coleman-Jensen et al., 2021 [61]	Access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources.
Donley and Gualtieri, 2015 [96]	Food insecurity: lacking enough money to buy the amount and variety of food one needs or wants.
Economic Research Service, 2022 [28]	Food insecurity: household members were, at all times, unable to acquire adequate food for one or more household members because the household had insufficient money and other resources for food.
Harke et al., 2021, p. 1 [99]	The lack of access to sufficient food because of limited financial resources.
Gundersen and Ziliak, 2015, p. 1830 [13]	Food insecurity: a condition which households lack access to adequate food because of limited money or other resources.
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020 [110]	Food insecurity: the disruption of food intake or eating patterns because of lack of money and other resources.
USDA, 2021 [111]	Food insecurity: lack of available financial resources for food at the household level.