{"doi":"10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.107564","title":"Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs and UltraProcessed Food Intake among Preschool-Aged Children","abstract":"Background: Among children in the United States, ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) account for ∼67% of daily calories, reflecting a low-quality diet. Among low-income preschool-aged children whose families participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), UPF consumption patterns have been understudied. Objectives: This study evaluated the association between SNAP and/or WIC enrollment and child UPF consumption and characterized the relationship between SNAP and WIC participation, food insecurity, and UPF intake among low-income, preschool-aged children. Methods: We conducted a secondary cohort analysis of an RCT for childhood obesity prevention that enrolled 610 predominantly Latino parent-child pairs from low-income families. The exposure was baseline participation in SNAP only, WIC only, both, or neither. The outcome was percentage of child caloric intake from UPFs. A linear mixed-effects model assessed the relationship between baseline assistance program participation and UPF intake over time, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates. Results: = 316) used both. Median caloric intake of UPFs was 62.5% (Q1, 53.1%; Q3, 71.0%) at baseline. Neither assistance program use nor the interaction between assistance program use and household food insecurity was statistically significantly related to UPF intake. Conclusions: Among predominantly Latino preschoolers from low-income families, UPF intake is high (>60% of calories). The percentage of caloric intake from UPFs does not significantly differ by SNAP and/or WIC participation, regardless of food insecurity status.This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01316653.","journal":"Current Developments in Nutrition","year":2025,"id":547215,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9561,"is_data_producer":true,"deposit_databanks":{"ClinicalTrials.gov":["NCT01316653"]},"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":396885,"name":"Evan C. Sommer","orcid":"0000-0003-4546-205X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":865808,"name":"Nadia Markie Sneed","orcid":"0000-0001-9973-6672","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1181071,"name":"Ellen McMahon","orcid":"0000-0002-7601-4412","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":544160,"name":"Kimberly P. Truesdale","orcid":"0000-0002-6697-8322","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":455170,"name":"Donna Matheson","orcid":"0000-0001-6279-6786","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":865809,"name":"Tracy Noerper","orcid":"0000-0002-6595-4257","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":396887,"name":"Lauren R. Samuels","orcid":"0000-0002-7273-5626","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":382525,"name":"Shari L. Barkin","orcid":"0000-0003-1585-3818","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":396884,"name":"William J. Heerman","orcid":"0000-0002-9706-6860","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1440063,"name":"Ashley Drengler","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":40,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:53:41.314800Z","pmid":"41189741","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}