Appendix - Table 5.
Highest, median, and lowest-nutrition items, and best and worst-case nutritional quality for a ‘balanced basket’a from Bronx food pantries (n = 21)b
| NuVal® Score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food-pantry items by MyPlate.gov food-group categories | Across all pantries | Across all prefilled-bag pantries | Across all ‘client choice’ pantries | Mean of all pantries’ highest or lowest score | Mean of all prefilled-bag pantries’ highest or lowest score | Mean of all ‘client choice’ pantries’ highest or lowest score |
| Highest-NuVal® item | ||||||
| Fruit | 100 | 100 | 100 | 82.2 | 69.1 | 99.7 |
| Vegetable | 100 | 100 | 100 | 93.9 | 89.3 | 100.0 |
| Grain | 94 | 94 | 94 | 78.3 | 73.5 | 75.6 |
| Dairy | 100 | 89 | 100 | 85.2 | 76.3 | 82.4 |
| Protein | 100 | 100 | 100 | 77.2 | 68.3 | 89.1 |
| Basket of all 5 items (mean) | 98.8 | 96.6 | 98.8 | 83.4 | 75.3 | 89.3 |
| Median-NuVal® item | ||||||
| Fruit | 37 | 37 | 37 | 52.7 | 47.9 | 37 |
| Vegetable | 100 | 99 | 100 | 89.1 | 82.1 | 100 |
| Grain | 65 | 84 | 65 | 60.5 | 60.8 | 65 |
| Dairy | 89 | 44.5 | 89 | 77.3 | 76.3 | 89 |
| Protein | 75 | 51.5 | 77 | 59.8 | 52.6 | 75 |
| Basket of all 5 items (mean) | 73.2 | 63.2 | 73.6 | 67.9 | 63.9 | 73.2 |
| Lowest-NuVal® item | ||||||
| Fruit | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17.7 | 26.1 | 6.6 |
| Vegetable | 10 | 10 | 20 | 62.6 | 65.4 | 58.8 |
| Grain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35.1 | 45.0 | 19.1 |
| Dairy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74.1 | 76.3 | 63.0 |
| Protein | 20 | 20 | 25 | 36.8 | 36.5 | 37.2 |
| Basket of all 5 items (mean) | 6.0 | 6.0 | 9.2 | 45.3 | 49.9 | 36.9 |
a
A’balanced basket’ is a hypothetical bundle of five items, one from each of the five MyPlate.gov food-group categories of fruit, vegetable, grain, dairy, and protein
b
Analyses here were imputed for pantries not offering at least one of item from each of the 5 MyPlate.gov food-group categories: six pantries operating by a prefilled-bag model and two pantries operating by a client-choice model. For imputation, NuVal® scores were set to zero for missing items.