Descriptions of the food environment concepts captured in the Food Environment Experience tool, built on the food environment dimensions and domains detailed in Turner et al24
| Dimension | Domain | Concept in the Food Environment Experience tool | Sample question from Food Environment Experience tool |
| Activity space | Personal and external | The places that household members visit as a part of their daily routine | In the last 30 days, what are all the places from which you or other household members have visited, as a part of your daily routine, to get food for household members to consume? |
| Availability | External | Food product was observed to be present by the respondent | In the last 30 days, in the places you visit as a part of your daily routine, how often were DGLVs available? |
| Vendor properties | External | Potential to acquire food product on credit | If you did try to get DGLVs on credit with written agreement during the last 30 days, how often was it possible to do so successfully? |
| External | Food quality, comprised of food safety and hygiene | Thinking of all the places where DGLVs were available in the last 30 days, how often did you see DGLVs that you would consider hygienic (regardless of whether you got them or not)? | |
| Marketing and regulation | External | Promotional information (eg, nutritional messages, adverts, special offers) | During the last 30 days, how often did you read, hear, or watch advertisements to buy DGLVs? |
| Physical accessibility | Personal and external | Experience of physical safety and security | In the last 30 days, how often did you find dark DGLVs in areas that you would consider safe to go to? |
| Personal and external | Ease of physical access | In the last 30 days, how often did you find DGLVs in places that are easy to go to? | |
| Affordability | Personal and external | Food product priced at a cost that the household could spend | During the last 30 days, in the places you have visited as a part of your daily routine, how often did you find DGLVs that were priced at a cost that your household could spend? |
| Convenience | Personal | Sufficient time to acquire, prepare and cook food product | In your opinion, were there any times in the last 30 days when you or your household members did not have sufficient time to get DGLVs for household consumption? If yes, how often did you NOT have sufficient time to get DGLVs? |
| Desirability | Personal | Tastes, taboos and cultural compatibility, health attitudes and knowledge | Do people who are important to you (eg, family/friend) like the taste of DGLVs? If yes, how strongly do they feel? |
DGLVs, dark green leafy vegetables.