Food consumption during COVID-19 confinement in healthy adults

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a confinement that could impact on levels of stress, anxiety, and food consumption of the population worldwide. Therefore, a narrative review was performed. The literature search was conducted in the PubMed interface of MEDLINE and the Web of Science Core Collection interface. Articles were included in English, Spanish and Portuguese, between January 2020 and June 2021. Objective: To describe changes in food consumption during COVID-19 confinement in healthy adults. Development: Of the 106 articles, 19 met the eligibility criteria. Of the 19 articles analyzed, 9 of them noted an increase in consumption of meats and sausages, cereals, sweet snacks, and sugary drinks. An increase in homemade preparations was found in 5 studies, also 5 of them found a decrease in fast food consumption. No changes in the consumption of dairy, legumes, fruits, vegetables, fish, seafood, water, and alcohol were present according to 7 studies. Conclusions: There were dietary changes in part of the population, heterogeneously according to food group due to COVID-19 confinement. There was an increase in the consumption of meat and sausages, cereals, sweet snacks, and sugary drinks. Consumption of fast food decreased. There were no changes in the consumption of dairy products, legumes, fruits, vegetables, fish, seafood, water, and alcohol.

Keywords

• dieta
• ingestión de alimentos
• cuarentena
• covid-19
• sars-cov2
• pandemia
• revisión.