Abstract
Food literacy has been defined as “the complex, related set of skills, knowledge, and behaviors needed in the everyday practicalities of meeting nutrition recommendations.”1 Amin et al2 recently validated a tool to measure food literacy: the Tool for Food Literacy Assessment in Children (TFLAC). The TFLAC assesses 5 domains of nutrition or food knowledge and skills: cooking skills, cooking knowledge, nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy regarding eating, and food systems knowledge.2 According to a review evaluating the relationship between food literacy and dietary intake in adolescents, 8 of 13 studies found that adolescents with higher nutrition knowledge or who engaged in more frequent food preparation had healthier dietary intake patterns.
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