title: Cost of Children's Healthy vs Unhealthy Snacks Does Not Differ at Convenience Stores.
abstract: This study compared the prices of unhealthy (chips) and healthy (ready-to-eat fruit) snacks that students are likely to purchase from corner stores.
  
  
  
  Snacks were purchased from 325 New Jersey corner stores; chip prices were compared with fruit prices overall and by store sales volume and block group characteristics.
  
  
  
  Prices did not differ significantly between chips and fruit in the overall sample in which both items were available (n = 104) (chips: $0.46 ± $0.15; fruit: $0.49 ± $0.19; P = .48) or by store or block group characteristics. Neither mean fruit prices nor mean chip prices differed by store sales volume or by neighborhood characteristics.
  
  
  
  Promoting ready-to-eat fruits in corner stores to children as a price-neutral alternative to calorically dense snacks can be a viable strategy to improve the nutritional quality of snacks commonly purchased at corner stores.
authors.affiliation: School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. Electronic address: Robin.Deweese@asu.edu.
authors.forename: Robin S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: DeWeese
authors.affiliation: School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
authors.forename: Punam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ohri-Vachaspati
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004032:Diet / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009515:New Jersey; D011203:Poverty; D062410:Snacks
keywords: child; convenience stores; food costs; snacks