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Healthy Food Choices in SNAP: Financial and Other Incentives to Change Purchasing Patterns
Grantmakers In Health and Altarum Institute cosponsored a roundtable discussion on encouraging healthy food choices focused on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program, which is at the heart of the nation's nutrition safety net, serving more than one in seven Americans in 2013.
The roundtable examined innovative approaches, including financial incentives, to encourage healthy food choices by SNAP participants. Participants also examined the added economic benefit that can occur when more SNAP dollars are spent on local food and circulate in the local economy. Speakers from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Altarum's Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition, the Fair Food Network, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service discussed what is being tested and what is working in this critical effort to improve health status through healthier food purchases supported by SNAP.