Nutrition and Food Waste Research in Prisons

The primary aims of this project are to assess whether a browser-based nutrition education intervention delivered through in-cell technology in combination with the implementation of a new menu system, at various prisons can:

• Improve the nutritional quality of dietary choices and through this, improve self-reported health and wellbeing.
• Deliver insight into the relative proportion of food waste created in prison kitchens, serveries and cells so that we can target future interventions.
• Identify the meals that are wasted most frequently over the course of three prison menu cycles and understand the reasons why.
• Understand whether a correlation exists between the nutritional quality of food and food waste.
• Understand whether a correlation exists between food, food waste and prisoner well-being and behaviour