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USDA Food Plans: Cost of Food report for JULY 2016

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

This dataset provides cost of Food at Home at Four levels for the USDA Food Plans. The Food Plans represent a nutritious diet at four different cost levels. The nutritional bases of the Food Plans are the 1997- 2005 Dietary Reference Intakes, 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and 2005 MyPyramid food intake recommendations. In addition to cost, differences among plans are in specific foods and quantities of foods. Another basis of the Food Plans is that all meals and snacks are prepared at home. For specific foods and quantities of foods in the Food Plans, see Thrifty Food Plan, 2006 (2007) and The Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, 2007 (2007). All four Food Plans are based on 2001-02 data and updated to current dollars by using the Consumer Price Index for specific food items.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
Maintainer
Identifier USDA-FNS-114
Data Last Modified 2016-08-15
Public Access Level public
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 005:055
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 36a0f6814c5f22daaa84861797907579ff0adf69b61f6ff5b3b83aecff9e72cf
Source Schema Version 1.1

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