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Truman Medical Center - Healthy Harvest Mobile Market
The Truman Medical Center Healthy Harvest Mobile Market is a mobile grocery store unit that travels throughout the urban core of the city on a weekly basis, bringing residents opportunities to purchase healthy choices such as fresh fruits and vegetables in their community at an affordable cost. In addition, nutritionists teach shoppers how to eat healthier and how to prepare dishes that can be made from Mobile Market foods.
What is it?
The Truman Medical Center Healthy Harvest Mobile Market is a mobile grocery store unit that travels throughout the urban core of the city on a weekly basis, bringing residents opportunities to purchase healthy choices such as fresh fruits and vegetables in their community at an affordable cost. In addition, nutritionists teach shoppers how to eat healthier and how to prepare dishes that can be made from Mobile Market foods.
Who is it for?
Residents in Kansas City urban areas with little access to grocery stores and supermarkets.
Why do they do it?
Sixty-eight percent of the Mobile Market’s customers come from USDA-designated food deserts with low access to fruit, vegetables and other whole foods.
Impact
The Mobile Market averages 600 monthly shoppers. Residents are able to access healthy whole foods.
Contact: Shane Kovac
Media Relations Manager
Telephone: 816-404-3786
E-mail: shane.kovac@tmcmed.org
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