Study by @jhoenink.bsky.social and colleagues found that:

🍔 Online food delivery services (OFDS) use increased from 16% to 25% in just three years.

🏠 The impact of physical food outlets on out-of-home meal consumption is weakening as OFDS availability grows.

As food delivery apps grow, they’re reshaping the food environment in ways we can’t see from the street.

Our new study shows these shifts aren’t evenly spread—they hit deprived areas harder.

This matters for health, policy & regulation.

Matching 620,000 physical food outlets to 79,000 online listings by hand? Impossible.

We trained a Random Forest model to do it in hours.

This opens new doors for monitoring the digital food environment at scale.

📦🍔 In Great Britain’s most deprived areas, 20% of physical food outlets are also on delivery apps—double the share in the least deprived areas.

Digital food access isn’t equal, and it’s shaping diets.

Link to new study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New paper on the out of home food environment!

@jhoenink.bsky.social found that:

Online food outlet use in GB increased from 16% in 2019 to 25% in 2022.

People with access to more physical outlets in their neighbourhood ate more meals prepared out-of-home.

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Nice work @jhoenink.bsky.social and team!

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨
In our latest study we found that:
🍔 Online food delivery services (OFDS) use increased from 16% to 25% in just three years.
🏠 The impact of physical food outlets on out-of-home meal consumption is weakening as OFDS availability grows.

In @foodfoundation.bsky.social Broken Plate report, there was a section on cost of healthy compared to less healthy foods led by @jhoenink.bsky.social

@hannahbrins.bsky.social and I wrote a new blog post exploring this more.

foodfoundation.org.uk/news/why-hea...

Living in more walkable neighbourhoods with lower availability of takeaway food outlets is associated with lower adiposity and improved trends over time.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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The @foodfoundation.bsky.social's The Broken Plate 2025 report is out! @mrcepid.bsky.social researchers @thomasburgoine.bsky.social, @jhoenink.bsky.social, & @jeanmadams.bsky.social contributed to it, finding the gap is widening between the cost of more & less healthy foods.

buff.ly/42zECIJ

Great to see this, including analyses from @thomasburgoine.bsky.social & @jhoenink.bsky.social who find:

*1/4 of places to buy food are fast-food outlets, with more in more deprived areas
*healthier foods are more expensive calorie-for-calorie than less healthy food, with the gap widening recently

Great to see this work from Bite Back describing the growth of chain food outlets. The top 10 chains have seen 59% growth 2014-2024. Most chains are more common in more deprived areas.

www.biteback2030.com/the-gut-punc...

With analysis led by the amazing @jhoenink.bsky.social

Bite Back report reveals number of outlets that the top 10 out-of-home food chains have in England, Scotland and Wales increased by 59% in the decade from 2014 to 2024.

Unit scientist @jhoenink.bsky.social analysed outlets selected by Bite Back Youth Board members.

https://buff.ly/41jMgqa

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