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0033/2024 - Alimentos ultraprocessados e preparações culinárias em promoções no maior aplicativo de delivery de alimentos do Brasil

Author:

• Luiza Rodrigues Dias - Dias, L. R. - <luizaroddias@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Juliana Aparecida Gama Baptista - Baptista, J. A. G. - <juu.gamab@gmail.com>
• Renata Bertazzi Levy - LEVY, R. B. - <rlevy@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5388-7002
• Maria Alvim Leite - Leite, M. A. - <maria.alvim.leite@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-7126


Abstract:

The objective of this study was to verify differences in characteristics of promotions of predominantly ultra-processed foods or predominantly culinary preparations of the largest food delivery app in Brazil in neighborhoods with different socioeconomic categories in the city of São Paulo. Twenty neighborhoods categorized according to quartiles of the Municipal Human Development Index were ed. From the centroid of the neighborhoods, data on food promotions were collected, classified as culinary preparations or ultra-processed foods. A sample of 350 promotions was analyzed, and their characteristics were compared according to the categories of processing degree and neighborhood vulnerability. There was a higher prevalence of ultra-processed food promotions in three out of four socioeconomic categories. Places that offered culinary preparations were closer than places that offered ultra-processed foods. The average price and discount were higher for ultra-processed foods. Given the wide availability of ultra-processed foods in promotions on the largest food delivery app in Brazil, it seems necessary to incentivize the consumption of culinary preparations and highlight them in digital food environments in order to discourage the choice of ultra-processed foods.

Keywords:

Eating, Mobile Applications, Socioeconomic Factors.

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Dias, L. R., Baptista, J. A. G., LEVY, R. B., Leite, M. A.. Alimentos ultraprocessados e preparações culinárias em promoções no maior aplicativo de delivery de alimentos do Brasil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Feb). [Citado em 14/04/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/alimentos-ultraprocessados-e-preparacoes-culinarias-em-promocoes-no-maior-aplicativo-de-delivery-de-alimentos-do-brasil/19081



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