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Cooking at home and enhanced cooking skills are linked to better diet quality and nutrition. Overcoming barriers to home cooking is crucial for promoting health and nutrition security.

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Area of Science:

  • Nutrition Science
  • Public Health
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Social transformations in meal preparation over the past century.
  • Increased availability of convenient, processed foods impacts home cooking.
  • Home cooking is emerging as a pro-health behavior for nutrition promotion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Summarize evidence linking cooking to health and nutrition security.
  • Explore the role of food agency in meal preparation.
  • Provide a framework to understand associations between cooking, food agency, and nutrition security.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of social transformations in meal preparation.
  • Exploration of theory and measurement of food agency.
  • Analysis of evidence linking cooking skills and behaviors to dietary outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Higher cooking skills, frequency, and confidence correlate with increased fruit/vegetable intake and diet quality.
  • Barriers to home cooking include food environments and sociocultural pressures favoring convenience.
  • Current research often focuses on food consumption rather than preparation pathways.

Conclusions:

  • Cooking skills and home meal preparation are vital for improving dietary quality.
  • Food agency and cooking behaviors are key areas for intervention to enhance nutrition security.
  • Further research is needed to elucidate the pathways linking food agency and cooking to nutrition security.