Assessing the healthiness of menus of all out-of-home food outlets and its socioeconomic patterns in Great Britain

In this study, we propose an innovative, low-resource approach to characterise the healthiness of out-of-home food outlets at scale. Menu healthiness scores were calculated for food outlets on JustEat, and a deep learning model was trained to predict these scores for all physical out-of-home outlets in Great Britain, based on outlet names. Our findings highlight the "double burden" of the unhealthy food environment in deprived areas where there tend to be more out-of-home food outlets, and these outlets tend to be less healthy. This methodological advancement provides a nuanced understanding of out-of-home food environments, with potential for automation and broad geographic application.PMID:38056051 | DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103146
Source: Health and Place - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Source Type: research