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Improving Nutrition in Home Child Care: Are Food Costs a Barrier?

Improving the nutritional quality of foods served in child care may come at a higher cost according to a study of foods served in child-care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Researchers found that higher daily food expenditures were associated with higher total food energy and higher nutritional quality of More

Date: February 2012

Resource Type: Journal Article

Focus Areas: Early Childhood Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics

More Nutritious Food is Served in Child-Care Homes Receiving Higher Federal Food Subsidies

More than 3.2 million children are enrolled in child-care programs that participate in and receive reimbursement for food from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). This paper discusses the results of a study which tested the hypothesis that higher CACFP reimbursement rates for food result in higher food More

Measuring, Analyzing and Examining Food Spending and Nutritional Quality in Family Day Care Participants in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program

The aim of this project is to examine how food costs and reimbursement rates impact the dietary quality of foods that are served in family day care homes. Taking advantage of a unique policy-analysis opportunity to assess the effects of different subsidy levels for providers in adjacent urban regions, this project will compare nutritional quality More

Date: September 2007

Resource Type: Grant Summary

Focus Areas: Early Childhood Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics