Sammendrag
Food environments are directly linked to diets and health outcomes such as over-weight, obesity, and noncommunicable diseases. The digitalization of food environ-ments is becoming a central issue in public health, yet little is known about thisemerging field. We performed a systematic scoping review to map the research onthe digital food environment and investigate how the eight dimensions of the foodenvironment, according to an established framework (availability, prices, vendor andproduct properties, marketing and regulation, accessibility, affordability, convenience,and desirability), might be shifting in the context of a digital society. We searchedMEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, and Web of Science for studies published between2000 and 2019, using search terms covering digital technology and food environ-ment, which yielded 13,580 unique records. Our analysis of 357 studies shows thatdigitalization is taking place in all dimensions of the food environment, and enablingthe emergence of new forms of buying and selling food, such as online grocery shop-ping and online food delivery, which may be changing availability of foods and affect-ing the physical distance to shops and time allocated for shopping. Systematicreviews identified indicated that digital food marketing and social media can influ-ence food choices, preferences and consumption. Our findings suggest that digitaland physical food environments are interconnected and influencing one another, butthe impact of the digital on health and nutrition is yet unclear.
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