After the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, the study aimed to assess the nutritional quality, energy, and macronutrient content of meals from field kitchens, evaluating their capacity to meet recommended daily intakes in the region.

The contents of morning, lunch, and evening meals prepared by the Turkish Red Crescent in field kitchens in 10 provinces were collected on the second day of the earthquake and 3 times at 1-month intervals: February 7, March 7, and April 7.

During the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, 570 public institutions and/or non-governmental organizations provided food assistance at 2.342 assembly points in 10 provinces on February 7, March 7, and April 7. In the aftermath of the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, the Turkish Red Crescent provided meals to over 4.8 million people at 10 different locations for a period of 3 days. Starting from the second day after the earthquake (February 7), when food services were regularly recorded at nutrition service points, the percentages of macronutrients covering total energy were found to be within the normal range.

To promote the health of disaster survivors, it is important to improve the balanced RDAs for energy and macronutrients and ensure compliance with national dietary guidelines.

The aim of this study is to analyse complementary feeding practices, to assess the extent to which minimum dietary diversity (MDD) recommendations are being met in the population studied and to study factors that influence the achievement of MDD.

We pooled individual level data form the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multi Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). We apply methods from poverty measurement to identify individual gaps towards achieving MDD. We further identify food groups that separate children who achieve MDD from those who do not.

West and Central Africa.

62 257 children aged between 6 and 23 months.

82·0 per cent of children do not achieve MDD and on average are lacking 2·5 out of five required food groups. For 19·0 per cent of children, the gap to MDD is one food group and for 23·7 per cent of children the gap is two food groups. Consumption of eggs, other fruits and vegetables as well as legumes and nuts is particularly low among children who are not achieving MDD. More than 90·0 per cent of children who do not achieve MDD do not consume these food groups compared to around half of children who achieve MDD.

Overall MDD is low, but there is large potential for improving MDD achievement if food consumption can be increased by one or two food groups. Available, affordable and culturally accepted food groups are identified that could be prioritised in interventions to close this gap.

To explore the meanings that newly arrived refugee adolescents residing in the Southeastern USA attribute to foods.

We used methods from cognitive anthropology to assess whether adolescents from different countries share a cultural model of eating behaviours.

A school-based study in a community in the Southeastern USA.

Adolescents (10–17 years) who arrived in the USA on a refugee visa in the previous year.

Adolescents showed consensus in grouping items and in identifying some foods as associated with adults and others with children. There was evidence of a shared model of eating practices across age, gender and number of siblings. Adolescents who had lived in a refugee camp were significantly different in how they grouped items.

Adolescents from nine countries shared a model of eating behaviours; these patterns are consistent with rapid dietary acculturation within 1 year of arrival or with shared models held from pre-arrival. Our finding that adolescents who recently arrived in the USA generally agree about how foods relate to one another holds promise for generalised nutrition and dietary interventions across diverse adolescent groups.

To identify patterns of food taxes acceptability among French adults and to investigate population characteristics associated with them.

Cross-sectional data from the NutriNet-Santé e-cohort. Participants completed an ad hoc web-based questionnaire to test patterns of hypothetical food taxes acceptability (i.e. overall perception combined with reasons for supporting or not) on eight food types: fatty foods, salty foods, sugary foods, fatty and salty foods, fatty and sugary products, meat products, foods/beverages with unfavourable front-of-pack nutrition label and ‘ultra-processed foods’. Sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics and dietary intakes (24-h records) were self-reported. Latent class analysis was used to identify patterns of food taxes acceptability.

NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort study.

Adults (n 27 900) engaged in the French NutriNet-Santé e-cohort.

The percentage of participants in favour of taxes ranged from 11·5 % for fatty products to 78·0 % for ultra-processed foods. Identified patterns were (1) ‘Support all food taxes’ (16·9 %), (2) ‘Support all but meat and fatty products taxes’ (28·9 %), (3) ‘Against all but UPF, Nutri-Score and salty products taxes’ (26·5 %), (4) ‘Against all food taxes’ (8·6 %) and (5) ‘No opinion’ (19·1 %). Pattern 4 had higher proportions of participants with low socio-economic status, BMI above 30 kg/m2 and who had consumption of foods targeted by the tax above the median.

Results provide strategic information for policymakers responsible for designing food taxes and may help identify determinants of support for or opposition to food taxes in relation to individual or social characteristics or products taxed.