Defintions
The consistent access to enough safe, nutritious food for an active, healthy life, without resorting to emergency food programs and other coping strategies.
What is food security?
The federal food assistance for qualifying low-income households; formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
The nonprofit, charitable organization that acts like a warehouse or intermediary, gathering donations from retailers and individuals, then distributing food to other community or government agencies like food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
What are food banks?
People have to pay to use Community Refrigerators
What is False?
Community Refrigerators are absolutely free to the public!
"Take what you need, leave what you can"
The limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods.
What is food insecurity?
The federally funded program that provides supplemental food, health care referrals, and nutrition counseling for pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children under age 5.
What is Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)?
The place where food is distributed directly to those in need.
What are food pantries?
There are varying levels of food insecurity. There are 4 levels: high, marginal, low, and very low
What is true?
The pain, discomfort, weakness, or illness caused by a long-term lack of food.
What is hunger?
The five USDA domestic food assistance programs that primarily serve the nutritional needs of children. Examples are: These programs include: the National School Lunch Program & School Breakfast Program, Summer Food Service Program.
What is Child Nutrition Programs?
The food distribution efforts and programs that distribute meals to individuals who are at home and who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals.
What is Meals on Wheels?
Children who experience food insecurity are at a higher risk of developing asthma, struggling with anxiety or depression, and performing poorly in school or physical activities
What is true?
A substance used by an organism for energy, growth, or maintenance.
What is a Nutrient?
The current nutrition guide published by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, a food circle depicting a plate.
What is My Plate?
The community organization that prepares meals for low-income clients. Meals are eaten onsite.
What are soup kitchens?
People of color are more likely to be food secure compared to the Anglo population in current times.
What is False?
People of color are disproportionately affected by higher risk of hunger. 22.5% of Black households and 18.5% of Latinx/Hispanic households experienced food insecurity in 2018.
The areas with low access to healthy food, commonly low-income urban or rural areas without nearby supermarkets.
What is a food dessert?
Allows for a community to grow/harvest their own food in urban areas. Helps to beautify spaces once vacant or unkept. Also provides jobs!
What is a community garden?
The practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas
What is urban farming?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) refers to the department responsible for developing and executing federal policies on food and agriculture.
What is true?