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Foods Typically Purchased by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Households

Resource type
Research
Research type
Benefit Content/Cost
SNAP Benefit Use
Resource Materials
PDF Icon Summary (61.41 KB)
PDF Icon Final Report (735.77 KB)
PDF Icon Appendix (1.80 MB)

This study uses calendar year 2011 point-of-sale transaction data from a leading grocery retailer to examine the food choices of SNAP and non-SNAP households . On average, each month's transaction data contained over 1 billion records of food items bought by 26.5 million households in 127 million unique transactions.

Page updated: November 16, 2021