Fresh Street Food and Health pilot study: A trial to evaluate the impact of a subsidy for fresh fruit and vegetables on a range of interconnected challenges for UK public health nutrition in areas of high deprivation and low fruit and vegetable consumption

Fresh Street: a cluster randomised controlled trial of the benefits of a place-based, household-level subsidy for fresh fruit and vegetables on diet, health and the wider environment

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN14849428

Enrollment

Registered

2021-10-06

Start date

2021-09-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-03-10

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Conditions

Diet quality and health Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

Eligible streets will be randomised to either the intervention or control arm. The allocation ratio will be 1:1. Stratified (by site) permuted blocked randomisation with block sizes of m=6 and 4 will

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Areas with a high deprivation index (IMD quintiles 4 or 5)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Areas with a low deprivation index (IMD quintiles 1 - 3)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Portions of fruit and vegetables (FV) eaten in the previous day measured using Active Lives Survey questions at baseline and 4-6 months for the pilot study, and at 1 year and 2 years if progression criteria are met and the study progresses to the main trial	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The following will be measured at baseline and 4-6 months for the pilot study, and at further time points if progression criteria are met and the study progresses to the main trial: 1. Diet Quality measured using the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) 2. Food Insecurity measured using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) 3. Long term health conditions measured using Questions from the Yorkshire Health Study (YHS) Health Questionnaire	—

Measure

Time frame

The following will be measured at baseline and 4-6 months for the pilot study, and at further time points if progression criteria are met and the study progresses to the main trial: 1. Diet Quality measured using the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) 2. Food Insecurity measured using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) 3. Long term health conditions measured using Questions from the Yorkshire Health Study (YHS) Health Questionnaire

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Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026