‘Food Deserts’ Mapped Across London Using Grocery Shopping Data

‘Food deserts’ mapped across London using grocery shopping data

Tesco loyalty-card data revealed unequal sales levels of nutritious food across the city.

‘Food deserts’ found even in areas with supermarkets nearby – new study

Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables is key to staying healthy and avoiding diseases such as heart disease and stroke. But it’s often easier said than done. Places where many people eat poorly are often called “food deserts”, and their existence has typically been blamed on a lack of nearby supermarkets or grocery stores. However, my colleagues and I have discovered food deserts exist in the heart of one of Europe’s biggest and most cosmopolita…

Grocery store records reveal London food deserts

A new study identifies large clusters of food deserts, where residents have limited access to affordable, nutritious food, in East London—particularly Newham, Redbridge, and Barking and Dagenham—and in parts of west London such as Ealing and Brent.

Shopping data reveals ‘food desert’ hotspots in London, suggesting where nutritional needs are not be being met

New research has used purchasing data to map areas of London where residents may be suffering from a nutritionally inadequate diet, pinpointing where there are ‘food deserts.’ Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Adelaide analysed Tesco food purchasing records from 1.6 million people across London to understand how food purchase patterns vary and what they reveal about health. Their results, published today in PLOS Complex Systems, …

New Study Uncovers Unexpected Urban Food Deserts Through Shopping Data

A groundbreaking new study from the University of Adelaide challenges conventional wisdom surrounding the identification of food deserts by leveraging detailed grocery store purchase data rather than relying solely on physical access to stores. This innovative approach reveals that factors such as financial hardship and social inequality, rather than mere proximity to food retailers, drive nutritional deficiencies in urban populations. By focusi…

Grocery store records reveal London food deserts - Dining and Cooking

image:  Researchers assess and model grocery store food purchases across London. view more  Credit: Arthur Franklin, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new study identified large clusters of food deserts, where residents have limited access to affordable, nutritious food, in East London—particularly Newham, Redbridge, and Barking and Dagenham—and in parts of west London such as Ealing and [...]