The Nutrient Rich Food Price Index: a nutrition-relevant adaptation of the Laspeyres price index to track the cost of affordable nutrient density

The Nutrient Rich Food Price Index: a nutrition-relevant adaptation of the Laspeyres price index to track the cost of affordable nutrient density

BackgroundThe Laspeyres price index is the ratio of the current cost of a market basket of commodities or food groups relative to base period prices.ObjectiveTo develop a nutrition-relevant version of the Laspeyres price index, using market baskets based on tertiles of the nutrient rich food (NRF9.3...

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Main Authors: Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez, Mariano Guzmán-Rodríguez, Jonathan Lara-Arévalo, Adam Drewnowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Nutrition
Subjects:
Laspeyres index
nutrient rich food price index
food prices
nutrition economics
affordable nutrient density
Mexico
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1107573/full

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