ArticlePublic health nutrition2018
Association of neighbourhood food availability with the consumption of processed and ultra-processed food products by children in a city of Brazil: a multilevel analysis.
Article in Public health nutrition, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impact of Street Food Availability on Nutritional Intake and Diet-Related Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
- Ultra-processed food consumption, dietary behaviors, and marketing exposure among school adolescents in urban Ethiopia: a qualitative study.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring the Connection Between Ultra-Processed Foods and Breast Cancer: From Adiposity to Inflammation and Beyond.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Resilience and vulnerabilities of urban food environments in the Asia-Pacific region.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of ultra-processed foods and dental health-results from Bandare-Kong cohort: structural equation modeling.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations between food deserts, food swamps, and ultra-processed food intake in childhood.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2026Article
- Prevalence of ultra-processed foods and beverages in newly launched products across the Americas: a comparison between the United States and Latin American countries from 2018 to 2023.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Consumption of ultra-processed foods and dental caries in Brazilian adolescents.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The relationship between food insecurity, purchasing patterns and perceptions of the food environment in urban slums in Ibadan, Nigeria.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Ultra-processed foods in a rural Ecuadorian community: associations with child anthropometry and bone maturation.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Food Availability in Different Food Environments Surrounding Schools in a Vulnerable Urban Area of Santiago, Chile: Exploring Socioeconomic Determinants.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Ultra-processed foods should be central to global food systems dialogue and action on biodiversity.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Fruit and vegetable consumption among older adults: influence of urban food environment in a medium-sized Brazilian city.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Investigating foods and beverages sold and advertised in deprived urban neighbourhoods in Ghana and Kenya: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2020Observational
- Food and nutritional security of semi-arid farm families benefiting from rainwater collection equipment in Brazil.PloS one · 2020Article
- Article
- Association between watching TV whilst eating and children's consumption of ultraprocessed foods in United Kingdom.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Article
- Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy.Regional environmental change · 2019Article
- 'Obesogenic' School Food Environments? An Urban Case Study in The Netherlands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the association between neighbourhood food availability and the consumption of ready-to-consume products (RCP), either processed or ultra-processed, and unprocessed/minimally processed foods (UF-MPF) by children.
designCross-sectional. 24 h Dietary recalls were collected from children from January 2010 to June 2011. Neighbourhood food availability data were collected from 672 food stores located within 500 m of participants' homes, using an adapted and validated instrument. Neighbourhood-level socio-economic status (SES) was obtained by calculating the mean years of household head's education level in each census tract covered by 500 m buffers. Foods that were consumed by children and/or available in the food stores were classified based on their degree of industrial processing. Multilevel random-effect models examined the association between neighbourhood food availability and children's diets.
settingSantos, Brazil. SUBJECTS: Children (n 513) under 10 years old (292 aged <6 years, 221 aged ≥6 years).
resultsThe availability of RCP in food stores was associated with increased RCP consumption (P<0·001) and decreased UF-MPF consumption (P<0·001). The consumption of UF-MPF was positively associated with neighbourhood-level SES (P<0·01), but not with the availability of UF-MPF in the neighbourhood.
conclusionsResults suggest that food policies and interventions that aim to reduce RCP consumption in Santos and similar settings should focus on reducing the availability in food stores. The results also suggest that interventions should not only increase the availability of UF-MPF in lower-SES neighbourhoods, but should strive to make UF-MPF accessible within these environments.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.