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Exploring the Role of Social Supermarkets in Addressing Food Insecurity and Food Waste: A Scoping Review.
| Τίτλος: | Exploring the Role of Social Supermarkets in Addressing Food Insecurity and Food Waste: A Scoping Review. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | O'Malley C; School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK., Bradford C; School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK., Duffy J; School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK., Moore HJ; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK.; School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK., Burrows A; School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK., Dunne J; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK.; Middlesbrough Environment City, Middlesbrough, UK., Harris L; Middlesbrough Environment City, Middlesbrough, UK., Hillier-Brown F; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK.; Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK., Cotton M; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK.; School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK., Nield L; Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK., Lake AA; School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.; Fuse - The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle, UK. |
| Πηγή: | Nutrition bulletin [Nutr Bull] 2026 Jun; Vol. 51 (2), pp. 200-212. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Apr 16. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article; Scoping Review |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Published on behalf of the British Nutrition Foundation by Blackwell Publishing Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9315625 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1467-3010 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14673010 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Nutr Bull Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: Oxford, UK : Published on behalf of the British Nutrition Foundation by Blackwell Publishing Original Publication: London : British Nutrition Foundation |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Food Insecurity* , Food Loss and Waste* , Food Markets*, Humans ; Family Characteristics ; Food Assistance ; Food Supply ; Poverty |
| Περίληψη: | Tackling food insecurity and food waste are two interrelated and complex policy challenges. Innovations in food retail termed 'social supermarkets' (SSMs) could provide a solution, utilising surplus produce from mainstream food retailers, which are then traded at reduced prices. This scoping review aimed to synthesise the peer-reviewed research literature concerning the application of SSM models internationally, with a particular focus on how they influence food insecurity and reduce food waste. Free-text keywords and index terms were combined with Boolean operators for comprehensive searches of MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Google Scholar. Fourteen studies were included after duplication removal, sifting and results from citation searches were added. SSMs were primarily used by low-income, food-insecure households, although some clients do not fall under these categories, instead choosing to shop at SSMs to prevent further societal food waste from unused surplus. Attitudes towards SSMs were predominantly positive (especially in comparison to food banks), largely due to the implementation of the choice model, where clients are treated as 'customers' rather than 'recipients' of food. Although SSMs play an important role in providing food assistance to the food insecure and preventing surplus food from supermarket retailers becoming food waste, they do not address the deeper underlying causes of food insecurity and food waste, namely: income inequality and the on-going creation of surplus food throughout the food supply chain. Policies are needed which address these issues directly, unlike SSMs, which paradoxically rely on these increasingly dysfunctional systems to continue trading. (© 2026 The Author(s). Nutrition Bulletin published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Nutrition Foundation.) |
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| Grant Information: | OFC 2021_91 National Institute for Health and Care Research, Applied Research Collaboration, North East and North Cumbria |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: food insecurity; health inequalities; social supermarkets; surplus food |
| Substance Nomenclature: | 0 (Food Loss and Waste) |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260417 Date Completed: 20260613 Latest Revision: 20260926 |
| Update Code: | 20260926 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13254696 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/nbu.70053 |
| PMID: | 41992804 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
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